Question

Why did jerome say what an acquisition i should be to a class why did jerome feel that his visit to a doctor would do the doctor a good turn

Answer 1

jerome was reading a patent liver pills advertisement .He felt all symptoms in himself. So he concluded that his liver was out of orderHe entered into the reading room as a healthy man but he crawled out as a sick man. He thought that he was a hospital in himself.The medical students move from one place to another to get practice. They need not to do so. They should have the writer before them. After that they could take the diploma.He thought that a doctor could get maximum practice by examining him than seventeen hundred ordinary patients having one or two ordinary diseases

Answer 2

Jerome feels that he could be an asset to a class full of pupils studying medicine. Since medicine requires wide practical knowledge, students need to walk from one room to another in hospitals, visiting patients. They need to cover a wide range of maladies as well as study numerous patients diagnosed with the same illness. Jerome feels that he could save the students the trouble of walking so much. Ever since he laid his eyes on the list of illnesses and their symptoms, he had been convinced that he had each of them, barring one, in varying degrees. This made him call himself 'a hospital in myself'. Going by his conviction, he is bound to be of great use both to those pursuing medicine as well as practicing it. His visit to the doctor would 'do the doctor a good turn' because his doctor friend could even use him as a case study of sorts and benefit from his presence.