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went to enquire after him, and while going along the road, he
made up his mind to hold the following discourse with his
friend. After salutation I will first ask, well, Sir, how do you
feel yourself to-day? he will say better, and I shall rejoin,
very good; I will then enquire as to his diet, and he will say
rice without salt, to which I shall answer, may it do you much
service. I shall afterwards put the question, pray who is your
physician? he will of course tell me, doctor such a person, and
I may safely add, may God assist him in the accomplishment
of his work. At length, having settled this plan he reached
the house, and after the usual compliments, he seated himself
near the patient; my friend, says he, how are you? the sick
man replied, that he was very much troubled with a violent
fever; the deaf man (who not understanding what he had said,
thought that he was answering according to the plan he had
settled for him beforehand,) replied “excellent,” I hope God
will keep you so; the merchant (patient) already peevish
enough with the disease, was made more so by this speech ;
the deaf man next asked, what is your diet? and was answered
fiddlesticks; may they do you much good, said he; and pray,
my good fellow, say which of the faculty attends you ; the sick
man boiling with indignation, cried, doctor death himself; very
well, quoth the deaf man, may God speed his prescription.
ചെവി the ear, s. n. കെൾക്കുന്നു to hear v. a. വഹിയായി
രുന്നു was unable, third, p. sing. past tense of the defective verb വഹി
യ it is impossible. ദീനം sickness, s. n. ചെകിടൻ a deaf man, s. m.
തൊഴുന്നു to salute, v. a. ഇന്ന to-day, adv. ഒന്നാമത first, in the
first place, adv, പത്ഥ്യം diet, food, s. n. ഉപ്പ salt. ചൊറ rice, s. n.
സ്വസ്ഥം health, relief, s. n. ആകട്ടെ may there be, optative mood of
ആകുന്നു to become. ചികിത്സിക്കുന്നു to cure, to administer medicine,
v. a. വൈദ്യൻ a Physician, s. m. ഇന്ന such, adj. ഫലിക്കുന്നു
to succeed, v. n. സ്നെഹിതൻ a friend, s. m. ജ്വരം fever, s. n. കല
ശലായി severely, adv. അപായം danger, s. n. രൊഗം sickness, s.
n. വെറുപ്പ vexation, s. n. എന്തൊ മണ്ണ നീ പൊ fiddlesticks, lit.
some dirt or other, go. ദീനക്കാരൻ a sick man. ജ്വലിക്കുന്നു to burn,
to be inflamed, irritated, v. n. യമൻ the Devil, s. m.
