The doctor looked shifty. Hes still breathing, he said. Look, his pulse is nearly humming and hes got a temperature you could fry eggs on. He hesitated, aware that this was probably too straightforward and easily understood; medicine was a new art on the Disc, and wasnt going to get anywhere if people could understand it. Pyrocerebrum ouerf culinaire, he said, after working it out in his head. Well, what can you do about it? said Arthur. Nothing. Hes dead. All the medical tests prove it. So, erbury him, keep him nice and cool, and tell him to come and see me next week. In daylight, for preference.""But hes still breathing! These are just reflex actions that might easily confuse the layman, said the doctor airily. Chidder sighed. He suspected that the Guild, who after all had an unrivalled experience of sharp knives and complex organic compounds, was much better at elementary diagnostics than were the doctors. The Guild might kill people, but at least it didnt expect them to be grateful for it.
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Terry Pratchett was a 20th-century English fantasy author. Sir Terence David John Pratchett was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983 and 2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman. Read more on Wikipedia →