Stricken

over the past days, a pestilence descended upon Lake Park; never before have I been so afflicted. Dr. Moreau stated that he had not ever seen the excess of yellow bile as he witnessed in me.

most confounding is that I have not encountered a Poor, the most likely source of infection, in weeks.

Mercy Medical Center

an appropriately utilitarian building for the commodified, and oddly ritualized, blood-letting of the perpetually ailing poor.