Well, there's always influenza. Not the common influenza, of course, but they rather like a touch of that now and again. They think a good septic cold once a year keeps them from catching all sorts of other things.
10 seconds sound clip from the Dr Knock (Theatre Royal 1954) classic radio drama series episode.
You can hear this line at 00:03:29.833 in the radio play.
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- Why, in six months' time, you'll have saved what the practice has cost you twice over.
- The air here is very bracing, you can feel it.
- But you've not made your fortune by writing death certificates.
- Ha, ha, ha, no, of course not.
- No, I mean the big, worldwide epidemics.
- But if I have to wait for a worldwide epidemic...
- I've seen two. One in 1889 and the last one in 1918.
- You did fairly well out of them?
- Michaelmas 1919. And the books look very well indeed.
- Yes, you see the people here only pay their bills every Michaelmas, every 29th of September.
- And today is October the 3rd. What a good time to choose for parting with one's practice.
- But if they come to your dispensary, of course, they pay on the nail.
- No, at Michaelmas, that's the custom.
- But if they only come once, you're never going to see them again.
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Actors: Robert Morley (Dr Knock), Sir Ralph Richardson (Host)
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