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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slighted you by leaving you out, in my description ofthe various kinds of apothecaries enumerated above. Thereis a respectable class of druggists whom I have not men-tioned, and doubtless you belong to that order. On going home one evening, not long since, I observedseveral boys, loud and boisterous, surrounding a lamp post.As I approached, I heard, among the cries and vocifera-tions, — Howld to it, Jimmy; itll be the makin of ye. I drew nearer, and discovered a sickly-looking lad lean-ing up against the lamp post, with the stump of a cigar inhis mouth, and a taller boy endeavoring to hold him up byhis jacket collar, while a short-set urchin was stooping be-hind to assist in the task. They were evidently endeav-oring to teach Jimmy to smoke. The poor fellow wasdeathly sick, and faintly begged to be let off. O, no, no. Stick to it, Jimmy; itll be the makin ofyese, was repeated. Sure, yell niver do for a sample dark in a potecaryshop said another, as he blew a cloud of smoke from his
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GENERAL GltANT SMOKES. 77 own cigar stump into the pale face of the victim to modernaccomplishments. General Grant smokes, Jimmy, and youll never be aman if you dont learn, added a voice minus the brogue. A policeman here interfered, and rescued the wretchedJimmy. What^s a sample clerk, my lad? I asked of the boywho had used the above expression. O, sir, hes the divil o the potecary shop; the lean,pimply-faced urchin what tastes all the pizen drugs for theboss. If his constitution is tough enough to stand it thefirst year, then they makes a dark of him the nixt.

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