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 . are two guineas. You may go, sir, exclaimed Radcliffe. The old miser had trusted that he was unknown, and hemight pass for a poor wretch, unable to pay the five guineasexpected from the wealthy, as a single consultation fee. You may go home and die, and be d d ; for the grave and the devil are ready for Jack Tyson of Hackney, whohas amassed riches out of the public and the tears of or-phans
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 . are two guineas. You may go, sir, exclaimed Radcliffe. The old miser had trusted that he was unknown, and hemight pass for a poor wretch, unable to pay the five guineasexpected from the wealthy, as a single consultation fee. You may go home and die, and be d d ; for the grave and the devil are ready for Jack Tyson of Hackney, whohas amassed riches out of the public and the tears of or-phans and widows. As the miserable old man turned away, Radcliffe ex-claimed, Youll be a dead man in less than ten days. It required little medical skill, in the feeble condition ofthe old man, in order to give this correct prognosis. Radcliffe was the Barnum of doctors. Omnia matantur,et nos mulamus in illis exclaimed Lotharius the First. But 3S A MISERS GOLD. that all things are changed, and we change with them, didnot apply to medical humbugs during the seventeenth andeighteenth centuries — no, nor in the nineteenth century, aswe will show, particularly in our articles on Quacks andPatent THE MISER OUTWITS HIMSELF. The requisites essential to success are amusingly describedby a writer of the former time, as follows : — First. A decent black suit, and (if your credit willstretch so far), a plush jacket, not a pin the worse if thread-bare as a tailors cloak — it shows the more reverend an-tiquity. Second. You must carry a caduceus, or cane, like Mer-cury, capped with a civet-box (or snuff-box like Sir Rich-ards), and must walk with becoming gravity, as if in deepcontemplation upon an arbitrament between life and death. Third. You must hire convenient lodgings in a respec-table neighborhood, with a hatch* at the door; have your * Small door or window, through which to receive night calls, etc. EARLY FRENCH PHYSICIANS. 39 reception-room hung with pictures of some ce
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