"But after all the educated classes have a right to expect that their medical man will know the difference between a mitral murmur and a bronchitic rale.
"Round the Red Lamp Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life"
Arthur Conan Doyle
She danced like a Vernon Castle, knew almost as much about fencing as a Saviolo, shot like a George V., and rode like a cowboy, all of which qualifications she erased from her list on the termination of the freezing half-hour of her first interview with her first would-be employer, who, until the enumeration of the above sporting qualifications, had seemed desirous of taking her along with a bronchitic pug to winter in Bath.
"Desert Love"
Joan Conquest
Marcella soon made out the poor little bronchitic boy, sitting coughing by the fire, and Mrs. Hurd busied with some washing.
"Marcella"
Mrs. Humphry Ward