From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:

This afternoon Grandmother took me to see a doctor because she said I was getting too many colds. This is not my darling Dr. Otto, this is a man I just hate, and I don’t think that he is a real doctor either, he just takes out people’s tonsils. His name is Dr. Selton, and when he put a lot of mirrors down my throat, he told me to stop squirming like an eel. An eel is a fish that looks just like a snake.