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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? was the reply. He returnit? No, sir; if you lend that man an emetic he would neverreturn it. .On his borrowed funds, — neither principal nor interest ofwhich his kind friend ever expected him to be able to return,— the doctor entered the great metropolis. He hired a housein a respectable locality, and hung out his sign. During hislong quiet days in the country village he had read a greatdeal, and was up to the tricks of his predecessors. Hehad particularly posted himself on the ways and means re-sorted to by some of those physicians, of whom we havealready made brief mention, for getting into practice. What avails it that I know as much as other physicianswho have entered upon a practice? What does my diploma
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A COUNTRY DOCTOR. 47 amount to if I have no patients? he asked himself overand again. Practice was now his want, and this is theway he obtained it. Having read of a celebrated physician,who kept his few patients a long time in waiting, under pre-tence that he was preoccupied by the many who fortunatelyhad preceded, our young physician adopted that great manstactics. For want of patients to keep in waiting, he hiredsome decently dressed lackeys to apply regularly at his frontdoor, at specified times, and wait till the colored servant ad-mitted them, one at a time. Each was passed out after ahalf hours supposed consultation, and the next admitted.The neighbors and others passing, seeing patients continu-ally in waiting, some with a hand, a foot, face, or other partsbound up, were led to read his sign, and soon a bona fidepatient applied, who, in turn, was kept waiting a long time,notwithstanding the young doctors anxiety to finger a realmedical fee from his first New York patient. Other

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