St Veronica's

[jbor at bigpond.com]

> Note also that the full name is "the Hospital of St. Veronica of the 
> True Image for Colonic and Respiratory Diseases" (46), which seems to 
> be another variation on the theme of "shit, money, and the Word" -- 
> well, maybe not "money" so much, except that Pointsman's main gripe is 
> to do with insufficient funding.

And except that, of course, it was built as a private Catholic hospital 
in the city where only the wealthy could afford to go, their 
predominantly excretory and respiratory ailments the result, one might 
infer, of excesses of eating and smoking.

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