Salad for the solitary and the social: . THE MYSTEKIES OF MEDICINE. Man is a dupable animal. Quacks in medicines, quacks in religion, and quacks in politicsknow this, and act upon that knowledge. There is scarcely any one who may not, like a trout^ betaken by tickling.—Southey. Sm Thomas Beowne has nobly sought to dignify the medicalprofession; and it would be undignified in us to attempt toimpeach his excellent judgment. There are, however, sundryphases of the Faculty that present points of humor and eccen-tricity so amusing, that to indulge a little merriment overthem, cannot but prove an in
Salad for the solitary and the social: . THE MYSTEKIES OF MEDICINE. Man is a dupable animal. Quacks in medicines, quacks in religion, and quacks in politicsknow this, and act upon that knowledge. There is scarcely any one who may not, like a trout^ betaken by tickling.—Southey. Sm Thomas Beowne has nobly sought to dignify the medicalprofession; and it would be undignified in us to attempt toimpeach his excellent judgment. There are, however, sundryphases of the Faculty that present points of humor and eccen-tricity so amusing, that to indulge a little merriment overthem, cannot but prove an innocent pastime. There is funenougli in love, law, and physic, if we seek it out. Any one \ 200 THE MYSTEKIES OF MEDICINE. with an eye for the ludicrous, will not need any specificationsin point. Much that is farcical in physic is, by the law ofelectric affinities, transferred to the physician himself. Judging by the latitudinarianism of some practitioners, andthe absurd nostrums of empirics and quacks, in all ages, it hasbeen gravely
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