He’s the one they call Doctor Feelgood
He’s the one that makes you feel all right
Mötley Crüe
Bryce was sweating.
Coat on and cravat tied, he sat in the oak office chair behind his medico desk and desperately tried to think of mundane things — boxing at White’s, the upcoming house party at Lord Hutton’s country estate next weekend, the milk-white of his fiancee’s skin (no, not that not that not that) — and forced his fidgety hands to be still.
Today was the day.
Today — after three months of acting as apprentice to Dr Spinner’s medical assistant, Doyle — Bryce was to take on Second Assistant duties in the new, vibratory therapy technique the good doctor provided to women suffering from hysteria.
Which meant he was about to see a patient alone for the first time.
A female patient.
A female patient suffering from hysteria.
And once she was undressed, lying on the surgery table with her ankles strapped to the foot board to keep her legs open, he would be responsible for performing the manual manipulations required to bring the woman — no no no, not woman… patient… women were flesh and breasts and supple undulating smoothness and god oh God oh GOD he mustn’t think of these patients as women — to paroxysm.
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