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Chapter Eleven
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He had recently read a eulogy1 on a new method for curing club-foot, and as he was a partisan2 of progress, he conceived the patriotic3 idea that Yonville, in order to keep to the fore4, ought to have some operations for strephopody or club-foot.
“For,” said he to Emma, “what risk is there? See —” (and he enumerated5 on his fingers the advantages of the attempt), “success, almost certain relief and beautifying of the patient, celebrity6 acquired by the operator. Why, for example, should not your husband relieve poor Hippolyte of the ‘Lion d’Or’? Note that he would not fail to tell about his cure to all the travellers, and then” (Homais lowered his voice and looked round him) “who is to prevent me from sending a short paragraph on the subject to the paper? Eh! goodness me! an article gets about; it is talked of; it ends by making a snowball! And who knows? who knows?”
In fact, Bovary might succeed. Nothing proved to Emma that he was not clever; and what a satisfaction for her to have urged him to a step by which his reputation and fortune would be increased! She only wished to lean on something more solid than love.
Charles, urged by the druggist and by her, allowed himself to be persuaded. He sent to Rouen for Dr. Duval’s volume, and every evening, holding his head between both hands, plunged7 into the reading of it.
While he was studying equinus, varus, and valgus, that is to say, katastrephopody, endostrephopody, and exostrephopody (or better, the various turnings of the foot downwards8, inwards, and outwards9, with the hypostrephopody and anastrephopody), otherwise torsion downwards and
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distraction
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linen
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