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 . vy. On the death of his father, the widow establishedherself as a milliner at Penzance, where she apprenticed herson to an apothecary. His mother was a woman of talentand great moral sense. When, as Sir Humphry, he hadreached the summit of his fame, he looked back upon thefacts of his humble origin, his fathers plebeian occupationand associates, and his mothers mean pursuit, followed forhis
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 . vy. On the death of his father, the widow establishedherself as a milliner at Penzance, where she apprenticed herson to an apothecary. His mother was a woman of talentand great moral sense. When, as Sir Humphry, he hadreached the summit of his fame, he looked back upon thefacts of his humble origin, his fathers plebeian occupationand associates, and his mothers mean pursuit, followed forhis benefit, with mortification instead of regarding them assources of pride. mark akenside. 105 A Butcher Boy escapes the Cleaver and becomes aGreat. Physician and Poet. In a rickety old three story house, the lower part of whichwas occupied as a butchers shop and traders room, and theupper stories as a dwelling-house, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, ill1721, was bora Mark Akenside. His father was a butcher,and one day, as the boy Mark was assisting at the menial oc-cupation of cutting up a calf, a cleaver fell from the shopblock upon another K calf,—that of young Akensides leg,— which lamed him for THE YOUNG SURGEONS FIRST EXPERIENCE. Akenside was a Nonconformist, and by the aid of the Dis-senters Society young Mark was sent to Edinburgh to studytheology. From theology he went to physic, his honest par-ent refunding the money to the society paid for his studiesunder their patronage, and he subsequently obtained his de-gree at Cambridge, and became a fellow of the R. S. Like Davy, Akenside became ashamed of his plebeian ori-gin. His lameness, like Lord Byrons, was a continualSource of mortification to him. 106 HOP-PING INTO PROSPERITY. He became a physician to St. Thomas ; and, as he wentWith the students the rounds of the hospital, the fastidious-ness of the little bunch of dignity at having come so closelyin contact with the vulgar rabble, induced him, at times, tomake the s
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