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1  The doctor had said she must bathe him every night, and she, foolish woman, believed him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
2  So they put him to bed again, and sent for the doctor, as they ought to have done in the beginning.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
3  The family, wild with terror, sent for a doctor, and paid half a dollar to be told that there was nothing to be done.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
4  The company doctor bandaged it up, but he got no other thanks from any one, and was laid up for eight working days without any pay.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
5  The latter part of April Jurgis went to see the doctor, and was given a bandage to lace about his ankle, and told that he might go back to work.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
6  The injury was not one that Durham and Company could be held responsible for, and so that was all there was to it, so far as the doctor was concerned.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
7  Little Kotrina, who was all alone with him, ran out screaming for help, and after a while a doctor came, but not until Kristoforas had howled his last howl.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
8  Then he gripped the sides of the bed, and shut his teeth together, and turned white with agony, while the doctor pulled and wrenched away at his swollen ankle.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
9  They sent for the company doctor, and he examined the foot and told Jurgis to go home to bed, adding that he had probably laid himself up for months by his folly.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
10  When finally the doctor left, he told him that he would have to lie quiet for two months, and that if he went to work before that time he might lame himself for life.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
11  Mercifully the doctor did not say this so that the old man could hear, for he was still clinging to the faith that tomorrow or next day he would be better, and could go back to his job.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
12  It needed more than the permission of the doctor, however, for when he showed up on the killing floor of Brown's, he was told by the foreman that it had not been possible to keep his job for him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
13  Many of these professional mendicants had comfortable homes, and families, and thousands of dollars in the bank; some of them had retired upon their earnings, and gone into the business of fitting out and doctoring others, or working children at the trade.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
14  The great majority of the women who worked in Packingtown suffered in the same way, and from the same cause, so it was not deemed a thing to see the doctor about; instead Ona would try patent medicines, one after another, as her friends told her about them.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
15  This was more cruel yet for Ona, who ought to have stayed home and nursed him, the doctor said, for her own health as well as the baby's; but Ona had to go to work, and leave him for Teta Elzbieta to feed upon the pale blue poison that was called milk at the corner grocery.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
16  They are penned up in filthy houses and left to rot and stew in misery, and the conditions of their life make them ill faster than all the doctors in the world could heal them; and so, of course, they remain as centers of contagion, poisoning the lives of all of us, and making happiness impossible for even the most selfish.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31
17  A government official has stated that the nation suffers a loss of a billion and a quarter dollars a year through adulterated foods; which means, of course, not only materials wasted that might have been useful outside of the human stomach, but doctors and nurses for people who would otherwise have been well, and undertakers for the whole human race ten or twenty years before the proper time.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31
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