. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . bottle. It soon contained a little ipecac-uanha, rhubarb, salts and senna, antimony, mercury, — alittle of everything he had prescribed for years. Some onesaid to him, What are you going to do with that stuff? Use it. How?When I get holdof a fellow who hasa complication ofdisorders I dontunderstand, I rakethe black bottle,shake it up, andgive him a dose outof it. Medical menprescribe a stimu-lant because theydo not know anybetter. It is aneasy medicine forthem to prescribe,and for their pa-tients to take. I am not going to deal with the
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . bottle. It soon contained a little ipecac-uanha, rhubarb, salts and senna, antimony, mercury, — alittle of everything he had prescribed for years. Some onesaid to him, What are you going to do with that stuff? Use it. How?When I get holdof a fellow who hasa complication ofdisorders I dontunderstand, I rakethe black bottle,shake it up, andgive him a dose outof it. Medical menprescribe a stimu-lant because theydo not know anybetter. It is aneasy medicine forthem to prescribe,and for their pa-tients to take. I am not going to deal with the medicalaspect of this question. There are some learned and noblemen who are grappling with that, and they can do it betterthan I, because they do it understanding^. I have been very busy lately in gathering up physiciansprescriptions, and the other day I had quite a bundle sent tome. Among others I have a prescription signed by thesurgeon of a certain hospital, as the diet for an individual: Two glasses of brandy and water, four glasses of port wine,. OLD MIXEMS CURE ALL. 17S GETTING EVEN WITH THE DOCTOR one bottle of porter, and one pint of milk.* And what doyon suppose ails the patient? He has a sprained ankle!Another is from a surgeon to a large iron foundry, one of theproprietors of which gave it to me: Give Mrs. McCarthy anoggin of ruin. A gentleman who took the place of asurgeon in another hospital, told me thai there was pre-scribed for one man eighty-six gallons of ale in six months,and the mans disorder was an ulcer on the leg. The uhad a rim round it nearly half an inch deep; but the Iwas discontinued, and the ulcer soon afterwards came upeven with the surface. 1 (In not say that medical men are always dishonest, but letme give you a case that occurred. An upholsterer in a cer-tain town constantly suffered from serious bilious attacks;and he paid his doctor a pretty round hill every year, besidessending him all the furniture he wanted. At last the up-holsterer sign
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