Identifier: funnysideofphysi01unse (find matches)
Title: The funny side of physic : or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice. An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Crabtre, A. D.(Addison Darre)
Subjects: Medicine Medicine Quacks and quackery Quackery
Publisher: Hartford, The J. B. Burr publishing co.
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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wise doctors lately metTo save a wretched sinner.1 Come, Tom, said Jack, pray lets be quick,Or we shall lose our dinner. Some roared for rhubarb, jalap some,And others cried for Dover; * Lets give him something, each one said, And then lets give Mm over. At last, after much learned wrangling, one more learnedthan the others proposed to arouse the energies of the dyingman by jingling a purse of gold in his ear. This sugges-tion was acted upon, and Soon as the favorite sound he heard,One faint effort he tried;He oped his eyes, he scratched his head,He gave one grasp — and died. Riding on horseback through Hyde Park, Monsey wasaccompanied by a Mr. Robinson, a Trinitarian preacher, whoknew that the doctors religion was of the Unitarian stamp.After deploring, in solemn tones, the corrupt state of morals,etc., the minister turned to Monsey, and said, — And, doctor, I am addressing one who believes there isno God. And I, replied Monsey, M one who believes there arethree. * Dovers Powder.
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DOCTORS PEDAGOGIC. Ill The good man, greatly shocked, put spurs to his horse,and, without vouchsafing a good day/ rode away at a highgallop. Pedagogues turned out as Doctors. Some of the hundreds of respectable medical practitionersof this democratic country, who, between commencement andthe following term, used to lengthen out their scanty meansby teaching the young idea how to shoot in some far-offcountry village, will scarcely thank me for introducing theabove-named subject to their present notice. However, itwill depend somewhat upon the way they take it; whether,like Sir Davy, they are ashamed of their small beginnings,or, like Dr. Mousey, they may independently snap their fin-gers in the face of their plebeian origin, and boast of theirearlier common efforts for a better foothold among thegreat men of their generation. Among English physicians, with whom it was, and still is,counted a disgrace to have been previously known in a morehumble calling, Ave may find a long list of doc

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