" Stop jabbering, girls, and I'll tell you everything, " said Jo, wondering if Miss Burney felt any grander over her Evelina than she did over her 'Rival Painters'.
医学百科 The Medicine Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained)
British novelist Fanny Burney's harrowing description of her un-anesthetised mastectomy in 1811, suffering so acute that was hardly supportable, reveals how tortuous such operations were.
Christopher Burney, a prisoner of the Nazis who had spent a long time in solitary confinement during World War II, gives a fairly typical example of this process.