. 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. its use fivehundred dollars. He never neglected his poor hospitalpatients for the richer ones outside. One morning, on leaving his house for a visit to the hos-pital patients, some one wished to detain him, when heexclaimed, in terms more earnest than elegant, — Private patients may go to the devil (or elsewhere, an-other reports), but the poor fellows in the hospital I ambound to care for
. 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. its use fivehundred dollars. He never neglected his poor hospitalpatients for the richer ones outside. One morning, on leaving his house for a visit to the hos-pital patients, some one wished to detain him, when heexclaimed, in terms more earnest than elegant, — Private patients may go to the devil (or elsewhere, an-other reports), but the poor fellows in the hospital I ambound to care for. To poor students whose funds were doubtful, he pre-sented free tickets to his college lectures, afterwards show-ing them marked attention. Everybody has heard of his rude kindness to a youngfashionable miss, whom her mother took to Aberuethy fortreatment. It is said that the doctor ran a knife under herbelt, in presence of the mother, instantly severing it, audexclaiming, — Why, madam, dont you know there are upwards ofthirty yards of (what are more elegantly termed bow-els) squeezed under that girdle? Go home, give naturefair play, and youll have no need of a prescription. 420 A KUDE ABERNETHYS SURGICAL OPERATION. Kindness to Clergymen. Cynics have been found in plenty to rail at physiciansfor loving their fees; and one might justly retort that therailers love nothing but their fees. Who does not love —and who is not entitled to — the sweet money earned bylabor, be it labor of hand, brain, or cloth? One thing issure — doctors are unpaid. — A Lawyer. The above kind-hearted physician, having attended thechild of a clergymans widow, without knowing her situa-tion, returned all the fees he had received from her when RAKE CHARITY. 421 he learned who she was, and added, in a letter, fifty poundsbesides, -with instructions to expend it in daily rides in theopen air, for her health. To a clergyman he sent a receiptfor his long services, and also enclosing ten
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