. 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. EXAMINATION OF THE SMOKER. seems anxious to make his debut there, we presume he is tobe benefited by the initiation into pure society. Since nine tenths of the young men are tobacco-users, wewill presume safely enough that this young man is one of 644 A CANDIDATE. them. He has used it from five to seven years, — sufficienttime to admit of its becoming part and parcel of him. The young man
. 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. EXAMINATION OF THE SMOKER. seems anxious to make his debut there, we presume he is tobe benefited by the initiation into pure society. Since nine tenths of the young men are tobacco-users, wewill presume safely enough that this young man is one of 644 A CANDIDATE. them. He has used it from five to seven years, — sufficienttime to admit of its becoming part and parcel of him. The young man — John is his name — is before theexamining committee, who, not being blind or obtuse fromthe use of the weed themselves, and knowing no young manis fit to enter pure society who uses, or has used, tobacco,without being purified, they submit him to the test, with thefollowing results: — His clothes are impregnated with tobacco, the examinerreports. Let them be removed and purified9 is the PURIFYING HIS BLOOD. They are soaked in alkalies, and soap, and water. Theyare washed, and boiled, dried, aired, and pressed and pro-nounced clean, and fit for society. The committee next examine Johns skin. It is full ofnicotine. It must be cleansed. So John is taken to theTurkish bath, the most likely place to remove the filth per-meating his every pore. Dr. Dio Diogenes puts him through ;he is sweated, and the great room is scented throughout PURIFYING PROCESS. 645 by the tobacco aroraa arising from the ten thousand beforeelogged-up pores of his skin. He is all but parboiled, thensoaped and scrubbed, rubbed, and then goes into the plungebath. The fishes are instantly killed. The canary bird inthe next room is suffocated by the effluvia penetrating to hiscage. The young man is wiped again, dried, and cooled. Again the committee smell. John is not yet pure. Thenicotine is in his blood, says Dr. Chemistry. A faucet isintroduced into Johns aorta, and his blood drawn off into
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