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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ace. The exceptions are inthe past. Cardinal Wolseys cat sat on the arm of his chair ofstate, or took up her position at the back of his thronewhen he held audiences; and the cat of the poet Petrarch,after death, occupied, embalmed, a niche in his studio; in-deed, poets appear to be more susceptible of pussys vir-tues and graces than other persons ; and she has, on manyoccasions, been made the subject of their verse, the senti-ment of which fully expresses a sense of the maligned ani-mals faithfulness and affection. Tasso, reduced to such a strait of poverty as to beobliged to borrow a crown from a friend to subsist on througha week, turns for mute sympathy to his faithful cat, and dis-burdens his case in a charming sonnet, in which he entreatsher to assist him through the night with the lustre of hermoon-like eyes, having no candles by which he could see towrite his verses. An editor facetiously says, We have here among us atthis time an addition to the M. D.s in the shape of two cat
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ERRORS AND TRUTHS. 331 doctors, who have the terrible idea that they were put uponthis earth for the sole object of doctoring cats, and now themortality list shows, at the least calculation, that no lessthan eighteen eats and two kittens have travelled to thatbourn from which no sassengers have ever yet returned,and all because they were the unlucky sons and daughtersof* ye night prowlers who had been sacrificed for the goodof the future cat generation. Present Errors. I think some reason for the present errors and supersti-tions attached to cats, may be attributed to the ca£-ad iop triequalities of their eyes and fur. At night their eyes oftenshine with phosphoric light, and rubbing their fur with thehuman hand causes it to emit electric sparks, particularlyin very cold weather. They are supposed to partake ofghostly, or witch-like qualities, because they can see in thenight time. Fish scales, as well as the flesh of fish, containa phosphoric principle—there is no witchery about s

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