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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, young and old, rich and poor.It recognizes no distinctions or castes; it is the very expres-siveness of democracy. The child of fashion, arrayed in silks, ribbons, and.furbe-lows; the child of penury and want, in rags, tilth, and semi-nakedness ; the shaver of notes and the shaver of faces ; thecollege professor and the chiffonier, all mingle in common onthe street. Now walking side by side, now brushing pasteach other, now stopping to look at the same cause of ex-citement, now each jostled into the gutter. No distinctionin wealth, birth, or intellect is recognized ; no one dare at-tempt to restrict the freedom of the thoroughfare, and nonedare say to another, Stand aside, for I am better than thou. The little boy trundles his hoop against the shins of thethoughtful student; the little girl knocks the spectacles fromthe nose of the man of science with her rope, while thepreacher runs against an awning-post to make way for a red-uced nurse with a willow carriage; the antiquated apple
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HOW TO BREATHE. 7l»l woman, and the child with its huge chunk of bread and but-ter, Bit on the curb ; the painter digs the end of his ladderrather uncomfortably into some pursy old gentlemans stom-ach : while the sweep, with the soot trembling upon his eye-lashes, strolls along as independently and leisurely as thedandy in tights, and with the sweeter consciousness that heis doing something for the public good. The street is a world in miniature, a Vanity Fair in mo-tion, a shitting panorama of society, painted with the pencilof folly and fancy. It is the only plane upon which society,the field which men sow thick with friendships, meets ona common level. It does not flaunt in aristocracy, and neverdares to be pretentious. Keep your Eyes open and Mouths closed. Theres true philosophy in the above saying of a wise sa-vant. But there is more wisdom in the latter clause than heeven dreamed of in his philosophy. The Book informs us that God breathed the breath of life(air) into mans nost

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