Salad for the solitary and the social: . r aid the wit and skill of the doctor may afford, rather thanridicule his vocation. When we look abroad, and see the surg-ing multitudes that crowd the. streets and lanes of our cities,and remember, that, notwithstanding their gay and flauntingattire and healthy look, that ere to-morrow, or to-morrow-week,many may be summoned to a sicli room, the victims of disease, 23G THE MYSTERIES OF MEDICINE. we shall learn tlie better to prize tlie province of the kindlyphysician. Tills is the way physicians mend—or end us,Secundum artem—bub althougli we sneer,In h
Salad for the solitary and the social: . r aid the wit and skill of the doctor may afford, rather thanridicule his vocation. When we look abroad, and see the surg-ing multitudes that crowd the. streets and lanes of our cities,and remember, that, notwithstanding their gay and flauntingattire and healthy look, that ere to-morrow, or to-morrow-week,many may be summoned to a sicli room, the victims of disease, 23G THE MYSTERIES OF MEDICINE. we shall learn tlie better to prize tlie province of the kindlyphysician. Tills is the way physicians mend—or end us,Secundum artem—bub althougli we sneer,In health—we caU them to attend us,Without the least propensity to jeer. Byron hits it exactly—when in health, we throw physic tothe dogs, and laugh at the doctor; but, when we are pros-trated by disease, when sickness sits caverned in the holloweye, we are glad enough to seek his aid, and remunerate him,as far as we can, for it. Some, after having passed under therecuperative process, are ungrateful enough to forget thedoctors
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