𝕬𝖕𝖗𝖎𝖑 12, 1755

Exerpt from The Surgeon's Apprentice by Dr. Jonathan Womack. • ━━━━━━━━━━━⊱༒︎ • ༒︎⊰━━━━━━━━━━━ • 𝕱𝖗𝖔𝖒 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕻𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖔𝖓𝖆𝖑 𝕯𝖎𝖆𝖗𝖞 𝖔𝖋 𝕲𝖎𝖉𝖊𝖔𝖓 𝕬𝖑𝖉𝖗𝖎𝖈𝖍 𝕮𝖍𝖎𝖊𝖋 𝕾𝖚𝖗𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝕽𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖓𝖜𝖔𝖔𝖉 𝕮𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖑𝖊 𝕾𝖈𝖍𝖔𝖔𝖑 𝖔𝖋 𝕾𝖚𝖗𝖌𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝕬𝖕𝖗𝖎𝖑 12, 1755 The boy's screams still ring in my ears. God help me, I had to pin him down myself while Harrison dug for the musket ball, the lead still hot and slick with blood. His father had spent their last shilling on laudanum, for all the good it did. I watched the man weep in the corner. I felt as helpless as this man, my hands today serving only to restrain rather than heal. • ━━━━━━━━━━━⊱༒︎ • ༒︎⊰━━━━━━━━━━━ •