. 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. as the pure morning aircalls fragrance from every lovely flower. Would you havethe prayers and blessing of the good? then Go to the pillow of disease, Where night gives no repose,And on the cheek where sickness preys Bid health to plant the where the sufferer ready lies To perish in his doom,Snatch from the grave his closing eyes, And bring a blessing home. A Peter-Funk
. 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. as the pure morning aircalls fragrance from every lovely flower. Would you havethe prayers and blessing of the good? then Go to the pillow of disease, Where night gives no repose,And on the cheek where sickness preys Bid health to plant the where the sufferer ready lies To perish in his doom,Snatch from the grave his closing eyes, And bring a blessing home. A Peter-Funk day, passing up Washington Street, Boston, I detecteda familiar voice issuing from a store, on the window-panes ofwhich lately vacated premises was pasted Eemoval, and,looking in, I saw a manmounted on a box sell-ing a pinchbeck place looked a deallike a Xew York Peter-Funk shop. Howeverthat may have been,I recognized the hiredauctioneer as once hav-ing been a medical prac-titioner, lie was agraduate of C Medi-cal College. Owing tohis honesty and lack of,acquisitiveness amongdishonest and niggardly creatures in , whom he faithfully served inhis earlier efforts at hisprofession, he was com-. THE PETER-FUNK PHYSICIAN. 746 AUCTIONEERING. pelled to resort to other means of gaining a support forhimself and family, and finally was reduced to clerkingand selling goods for those whose business tact exceededhis own. Selling Out. Everybody has heard of Leavitt, the dry little joker,the humorous and popular auctioneer of Hartford, who sellseverybody, and everything, from a riddled sauce-pan to anine-acre lot in the suburbs. One fine day he was selling, in front of the State House,a various collection of articles, with a lot of ancient andmodern household furniture and traps that would have madeMrs. Toodles happ}r for a six months, and was lookingsharp for some one to help him over a tough place on anodd lot, when he discovered in the crowd a pleasant, open,upturned countenance,
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