Doctors differBaillière, 1876 - 24 pages |
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Page 18 - Arm'd with a mortar and a pestle. Yet, some affirm, no enemies they are ; But meet just like prize-fighters, in a fair, Who first shake hands before they box, Then give each other plaguy knocks, With all the love and kindness of a brother : So, many a suff'ring patient saith, Though the Apothecary fights with Death, Still they're sworn friends to one another.
Page 19 - Tell me from whom, fat-headed Scot, Thou didst thy system learn? From Hippocrate thou hadst it not, Nor Celsus, nor Pitcairn. Suppose we own that milk is good, And say the same of grass; The one for babes is only food, The other for an ass. Doctor, one new prescription try (A friend's advice forgive), Eat grass, reduce thyself, and die. Thy patients then may live.
Page 11 - O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!
Page 20 - Wynter. My system, doctor, is my own, No tutor I pretend; My blunders hurt myself alone, But yours your dearest friend. Were you to milk and straw confined, Thrice happy might you be; Perhaps you might regain your mind And from your wit be free. I can't your kind prescription try, But heartily forgive; 'Tis natural you should wish me die, That you yourself may live.
Page 17 - Raysins solis stoned one pound, the loyns and legs of an old Coney, a fleshy running Capon, the red flesh of the sinews of a leg of Mutton, four young Chickens, twelve larks, the yolks of twelve Eggs, a loaf of...
Page 19 - Tell me from whom, fat-headed Scot, • Thou didst thy system learn ; From Hippocrate thou hadst it not. Nor Celsus, nor Pitcairn. " Suppose we own that milk is good, And say the same of grass; The one for babes is only food. The other for an ass, " Doctor, one new prescription try, (A friend's advice forgive), Eat grass, reduce thyself and die. Thy patients then may live.
Page 21 - Like a port sculler, one physician plies And all his art and all his skill he tries ; But two physicians, like a pair of oars, Conduct yon faster to the Stygian shores.
Page 23 - When people's ill, they comes to I, I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em ; Sometimes they live, sometimes they die. What's that to I ? I lets 'em.
Page 8 - Mead lived more in the broad sunshine of life than almost any man.
Page 17 - as it must be confessed that the depths and secrets of this most excellent art of physic, are far beyond the capacity of the most skilful woman," he relates for the Housewife's use some " approved medecines and old doctrines, gathered together by two excellent and famous physicians, and in a manuscript given to a great worthy Countess of this land."— Vol.