On the following day, atthe urging of his friends, he
went to see Dr. Alirio
Noguera to be treated for a
supposed pain in his liver. He
did not even understand the
meaning of the subterfuge.
Dr. Alirio Noguera had
arrived in Macondo a few
years before with a medicine
chest of tasteless pills and a
medical motto that convinced
no one: One nail draws
another. In reality he was a