IX. Read and dramatize the following dialogues:

Patient: Doctor, I have a bad headache and I have no appetite.

Doctor: Show me your tongue. (The patient opens his mouth and shows his tongue.) Yes, you have nasty tongue. Have you a pain in your stomach?

Patient: Yes, doctor, sometimes; especially after meals. I have a temperature after meals, too.

Doctor: I must examine your stomach ... Does it hurt here?

Patient: No, not there.

Doctor: Here?

Patient: Oh, yes, it does here.

Doctor: You have digestion trouble, but it is not serious.

I shall prescribe some tablets. You must take two before each meal. Do not eat any roast meat or any heavy food. Eat boiled vegetables and milk puddings. If you follow my instructions you will feel better tomorrow and in two or three days you will be quite well again.

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Doctor: What's the matter?

Patient: I'm quite ill. I think I've got the flu (influ­enza).

Doctor: Very likely. What are your symptoms?

Patient: I feel very weak and dizzy. I have a cold in my head and a sore throat.

Doctor: What is your temperature?

Patient: I've been running a high temperature since yes­terday. Today it is 37.9 (thirty-seven point nine).

Doctor: Please, strip to the waist, I must examine you. Your throat is inflamed.

Patient: Tell me, doctor, is it very serious? I was down with the flu only last month.

Doctor: It will be serious if you don't follow my instruc­tions. You've only caught a cold. You have to lie down immediately. I'll prescribe you some medi­cine and ask you to gargle.

Patient: Shall I have to stay in bed long?

Doctor: No, I think you'll recover in a few days. Please take this note to the reception office in the poli­clinic this week. You'll have your chest X-rayed and your blood examined to make sure that everything is all right.

Patient: How shall I take the medicine?

Doctor: Gargle as often as you can and take a tablespoon-ful of the medicine three times a day. Shake up the bottle before use.

Patient: Thank you ever so much, doctor.

X. Translate the dialogues into English:

• Що з Вашою дитиною? Вона захворіла?

• Боюсь, що так. їй поміряли температуру в школі і відіслали додому.

• Вона скаржиться на що-небудь?

• Так, вона каже, що в неї болить горло.

• О, вона швидко одужає. Ці ліки допоможуть їй за два-три дні.

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• На що Ви скаржитесь?

• Мабуть, я дуже перевтомився останнім часом і зараз страждаю від головного болю.

Крім того, я дуже погано сплю.

• А Ви міряли температуру?

• Так, вона нормальна.

• Дозвольте Вас оглянути. Вам потрібно побути вдома. Я дам Вам листок непрацездатності на три дні і пропишу ліки. Ось, будь ласка.

XI. Ask questions on the text and retell it:

My mother suddenly fell ill (was suddenly taken ill). She was feverish and felt very bad.

She had a splitting headache and a terrible cough. We telephoned for doctor Ivanenko, our district doctor. Doc­tor came, took her coat off and put on the white gown which she kept in her bag. The doctor asked mother to strip to the waist, examined her, felt her pulse, took her temperature, and measured her blood pressure.

The doctor said it might be pneumonia and told mother she must go to the hospital for an examination. But mother wouldn't hear of it. So doctor Ivanenko prescribed her some injections, a gargle, a cough-mixture, tablets, mustard plasters and a hot-water bottle at her feet.

Next doctor Ivanenko wrote a note for an X-ray and blood examination. The doctor put down everything she found in my mother's patient's file.

The prescription which the doctor left was made up at the chemist's (at a chemist's shop).

We followed the doctor's instructions and in two weeks mother felt much better. I took her to the policlinic for a check-up.

Mother went to doctor Ivanenko's consulting-room while I remained in the waiting-room. Soon mother came out. The doctor said she was on the mend. (She was recover­ing.)