A patient trying to convince his unsympathetic doctor that a sprained neck is a worse condition than a broken one. Wood engraving by G. King, 1912.

Dialogue includes: Patient (who has strained his neck and thinks the doctor is taking too cheerful a view of the case). "And yet they do say as 'ow a strain can be worse than a break." Doctor. "Very rare, I should say, in the case of a neck."