As soon as the Doctor had lit his pipe and got it well going he began:  
"Many years ago, at the time I bought this , I was a very young doctor, full of hope, just starting out in business. I myself a very good doctor, but I found that the rest of the world did not seem to think so. And for many months after I began I did not get a single patient. I had no one to try my new thermometer on. I tried it on myself quite often. But I was always so frightfully healthy I never had any temperature anyway. I tried to catch a cold. I didn't really want a cold, you understand, but I did want to make sure that my new thermometer worked. But I couldn't even catch a cold. I was very sad—healthy but sad.
 
"Well, about this time I met another young doctor who was in the same fix as myself—having no patients. Said he to me: 'I'll tell you what we'll do, let's start a sanitarium.'"
 
"What's a sanitarium?" asked Gub-Gub.
 
"A sanitarium," said the Doctor, "is a sort of mixture between a hospital and a hotel—where people stay who are .... Well, I agreed to this idea. Then I and my young friend—his name was Phipps, . Cornelius Q. Phipps—took a beautiful place way off in the country, and we it with wheel chairs and hot-water bottles and ear and the things that invalids like. And very soon patients came to us in hundreds and our sanitarium was quite full up and my new thermometer was kept very busy. Of course, we made a lot of money, because all these people paid us well. And Phipps was very happy.
 
"But I was not so happy. I had noticed a thing: none of the invalids ever seemed to get well and go away. And finally I of this to Phipps.
 
"'My dear Dolittle,' he answered, 'go away?—of course not! We don't want them to go away. We want them to stay here, so they'll keep on paying us.'
 
"'Phipps,' I said, 'I don't think that's honest. I became a doctor to cure people—not to them.'
 
"Well, on this point we fell out and quarreled. I got very angry and told him I would not be his partner any longer—that I would pack up and go the following day. As I left h............