Yours was a genuinely bad and serious situation. A doctor shouldn't be suffering from false modesty. It makes me wonder what her culture was. She, no doubt, wouldn't have had any problem saying finger, wrist, arm, elbow etc. I'm not sure what I would think of having a doctor like. How does it make you think?

Katz, Victor (2009). "21.3: Symbolic Algebra". A History of Mathematics: An Introduction. Addison-Wesley. pp.738–9. ISBN 978-0-321-38700-4. Wer sich für das Viktorianische Zeitalter interessiert, kommt an Ruth Goodman, der Autorin dieses Buches, nicht vorbei. How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Catch the omnibus to work and do the laundry in your corset? Goodman has brushed her teeth with soot, treated her chapped hands with home-made ointments, used a mangle and a copper for washing clothes, and lived according to the word of Mrs Beeton. She offers a commentary on the ‘great table-manners race’ as fashions and the movements in dining out became more widespread. The whole structure of the book is framed around a day in the life of a Victorian, from rising in the morning through the events of the day until they retired in the evening. By the end we know about sweat, body hair removal, and the advent of personal deodorants, as well as that age-old question of how Victorian ladies managed to do a poop in spite of all those petticoats. With remarkable ease as it turns out.Roach, John (1957). "Liberalism and the Victorian Intelligentsia". The Cambridge Historical Journal. 13 (1): 58–81. doi: 10.1017/S1474691300000056. ISSN 1474-6913. JSTOR 3020631. Archived from the original on 2 September 2020 . Retrieved 2 September 2020. Briggs, Asa (1959). The Age of Improvement: 1783–1867. Longman. pp.66–74, 286–87, 436. ISBN 9780582482043. I grew up in a late-Victorian terraced house. This house had wooden sash windows, tiled porch and kitchen floors, a slate roof with terracotta finials and two chimneys with terracotta pots that lead down to six fireplaces. Best thing about the author is that she actually tried to live replications of what her Victorian subjects had to live through. That is truly honest and thorough journalism.

Bilston, Barbara (4 July 2010). "A history of child protection". Open University. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021 . Retrieved 12 June 2022.a b Lloyd, Amy (2007). "Education, Literacy and the Reading Public" (PDF). University of Cambridge. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 May 2021 . Retrieved 27 January 2022. I was definitely intrigued by the majority of topics presented. Goodman talks about clothing (for all sexes, stages of life and station of life), hats, food, going to the privy (outside and away from the home prior to indoor plumbing), medicine and addiction, school for children and the differences in girls and boys’ educations, fears of exercise for girls, bathing and how community baths were what created the leisure swimming pool, sports and the advent of spectators at rugby and football, and even sex. I said this was a thorough account. Seiler, Robert M. (2011). "Soccer". In Mitchell, Sally (ed.). Victorian Britain An Encyclopedia. Routledge. pp.728–729. ISBN 9780415669726. I enjoyed how Goodman included important topics like child labour and drug abuse, too. It didn't feel like just a list of information from a text book. Plus, there some photographs included, which added to the overall interest of the book.