Jerome K. Jerome

1889 · London, England · Leafing through a medical book at the library, where he had gone to look up the treatment for a slight ailment

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid’s knee.

Three Men in a Boat, chapter 1

In the same thread

1889 · London, England

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

Three Men in a Boat, chapter 1