Muelas is a pleasant boy who has a positive outlook and a willingness to please that I could only wish were more widespread among the boys.
Sensibly, he had brought with him from Madrid his full medical history so that I was able to ascertain and later to confirm by my own examination that he is in robust good health.
It was also clear that the boy had made himself fully prepared for the more unusual features of our medical examination – ones with which I doubt he has any familiarity at all from the years he has spent in Europe! Continue story …
