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 . lled in a church at Bologna,recently, while kneeling in prayer. Was this an expressionof Gods wrath upon church-goers ? The laws by which God governs the universe are inexor-able. The frost will blight, the fire destroy, the storms willravage, disease and death will do their appointed work,though narrow-mindedness and bigotry misconstrue theirintent. All things are for good. If natural laws
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 . lled in a church at Bologna,recently, while kneeling in prayer. Was this an expressionof Gods wrath upon church-goers ? The laws by which God governs the universe are inexor-able. The frost will blight, the fire destroy, the storms willravage, disease and death will do their appointed work,though narrow-mindedness and bigotry misconstrue theirintent. All things are for good. If natural laws are vio-lated, the known and inevitable result follows. I have already exceeded the space to which this chapterwas limited, and there are a thousand superstitious beliefsand practices Avhich are not herein enumerated nor rest assured that nothing exists without its uses, withoutthe knowledge of the divine Author, and nothing supernat-ural docs or ever did exist amongst natural beings. There isnothing within this world but what God has placed for mansgood. There is nothing here past mans ability to is love. What there is beyond this world, we shall find out quitesoon XIII. TRAVELLING DOCTORS. • His fancy lay to travelling. — LEstrange. PUBLIC CONFIDENCE (?). — THE ETE OF THE PCBLIC. A BAD SPECIMEN. — • KEMARKADLE TUMOR. — THE SINGING DOCTOR. — CAUGHT IN A STORM. BIG PUFFING. A TURNOUT. — WHO WAS HE? —A SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE. THE SPANKING DOCTOR.— A FAIR VICTIM. LOOSE LAWS. DR. PULSEFEEL. IMPUDENCE. A FIDDLING DOCTOR. AN ENCORE. CHEEK. VARIOUS WAYS OF ADVERTISING. One might say, with some propriety, that these characters— travelling doctors — should have been classed under theheading of our first chapter, as humbugs; but if weshould put all under that head that belong there, O, wherewould the chapter end? As all is not gold that glitters,so neither, on the other hand, is there anything so bad thatno virtue can be
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