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 looked uponas a large fee in Holland, while in England, at that sametime, a physician scorned to touch any fee but gold, andsurgeons were still more exorbitant. In Spain, until a very remote period, the priests con- 388 A PIG ON PENANCE. tinued to exercise the double office of priest and physician,and some of them were proficient in surgery; and thoughthey fixed no stipulated price for their medical services, theyusually managed to get two fleeces from the one shearing,and on certain occasions dispose of the carcass also, for theirown pecuniary advantages, as the following will show: — Anthony Gavin, formerly a Catholic priest of Spain, says,I saw Fran. Alfaro, a Jew, in Lisbon, who told me that hewas known to be very rich, when in Seville, where thepriests finally stripped him of all his wealth, and cast himinto the Inquisition, where they kept him four years, undersome pretence, and finally liberated him, that he mightaccumulate more property. After three years trade, having
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A SAN BENITO PIG. again collected considerable wealth, he was again imprisonedand his wealth confiscated by the priest-doctors-,, but let off,with the order to wear the mark of San Benito (picture of aman in the midst of the fire of hell) for six months. But Alfaro fled from the city, and finding a pig near thegate, he slipped the San Benito over the pigs neck, and,sending him into the town, made his escape. Now I ampoor, he added, nobody wants to imprison me. FEES OF COUliT PHYSICIANS. 389 English Fees and Incomes. In no other country have physicians fees varied so muchas in England. The Protestant divine and the physicianhave kept step together to the music of civilization and en-lightenment. Both of these professions were held at a lowestimation up to the Elizabethan era, when a young, un-fledged M. D. from Oxford would gladly accept a situationin a lords family for five or ten pounds a )ear, with hisboard, and lodgings in the garret, while, in addition to pro-fessional services he

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