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Medical advances were (will be?) made over the next five centuries:
It was like being struck by a thunderbolt.
Dr. Full had so long lacked any sense of well-being except the brief glow of alcohol that he had forgotten its very nature. Fie was panic stricken for a long moment at the sensation that spread through him slowly, finally tingling in his fingertips. Fie straightened up, his pains gone and his leg tremor stilled.
Compare to the instrument case from Time Pawn (1954) (which Philip K. Dick later expanded into the novel Dr. Futurity [1960]):
[Dr.] Parsons recognized the object instantly. His gray-metal instrument case.
“We examined them,” Loris said, “but their functions are beyond us. We have no comprehension of medical work. We can’t grasp the basic principles! With the time dredge we’ve brought back endless spools of information, but we can’t do anything with them. Our orientation — lack of tradition, our whole training makes it impossible to apply the knowledge.”
Compare also to the surgical homeostatic unit from Now Wait For Last Year (1966) by Philip K. Dick. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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