Year of Wonders
How does the surgeon react when Anna tells him that she has seen ‘lumps at the neck and rosy rings on the body’ on the body of her lodger
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rat fall
Anna approaches and asks if Edward’s sickness might be the plague. The surgeon is shocked that a woman would try to undermine his diagnosis, but Anna recites George’s symptoms, which correspond to Edward’s. The surgeon leaves and tells Anna that he refuses to come back if the plague is in fact present.