. 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. a young lady. The matronly friend of the .latter, hav-ing praised the young man from all points of view, returnedone day from the death-bed of a friend, at which the physi- THE DOCTORS STORY. 443 cian had been present. She eulogized the living fully asmuch as the dead man, and finally turning to the girl, as ifshe had reached the lie jrfus ultra of enthusiasm, she said,Jane, hes the handso
. 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. a young lady. The matronly friend of the .latter, hav-ing praised the young man from all points of view, returnedone day from the death-bed of a friend, at which the physi- THE DOCTORS STORY. 443 cian had been present. She eulogized the living fully asmuch as the dead man, and finally turning to the girl, as ifshe had reached the lie jrfus ultra of enthusiasm, she said,Jane, hes the handsomest man I ever see fix in round acorpse. A Doctors Story. The writer is acquainted with a young physician, who readmedicine with an old doctor, named Gitchcl, or Twichel, ofPortland, and commenced practice in his native village,—a great mistake for any practitioner to make, — and wherehe met with consequences natural to even a prophet, op-position and scandal. By some mistake, or, as his oppo-nents charged, mal-practice, he lost a patient. Being, a fewdays later, in a shop in the next village, he was secretly in-formed that the hounds of the law were after him — even gfe^ -111 ^j^^^*^N^^?£^^. FLIGHT OF THE DOCTOR. at the next door, that very moment. Terrified beyondnecessity, he caught up his medicine chest, and, climbing outof the back window, fled to the woods. In the village, athome, he had courted a lovely young girl, with whom he hadexchanged vows. She knew the talk that was going on re- 444 HIS FLIGHT AND MISERY. specting the young doctor, but she believed it not, or, be-lieving, clung the firmer to her pledges. After night fell I left the woods, and took to the high-way. To go home I was afraid. O, had I but braved thedoctors, and defied the lawyers, all would have been well,he told me afterwards. But I had received such ill treat-ment, been scandalized so severely, that I was cowed to theearth. I knew not if my life, my Angie, had also turnedagainst me, when th
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