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Title: 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
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Crabtre, A. D.(Addison Darre)
Subjects: Medicine Medicine Quacks and quackery Quackery
Publisher: Hartford, The J. B. Burr publishing co.
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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they may brightly blaze. Id give our (nameless) knight, before he starts,A tireless mind, where never Conscience smarts;An oily tongue, which word should never speakTo call a blush to Satans brazen cheek;With, yet, a power of lungs the weak to move,Which lung-quiescent . . . might approve ;A changing face, which een might Homer feign,A ton of brass for every ounce of brain. Then launch him forth, right cunningly to rageThrough the thin shams of this enlightened age;To tell the people they are lords of earth,And pick their pockets while he lauds their worth;Drug men with folly, which no clime engrosses,And sense deal out in homeopathic doses;And making goodness to his projects bend,With all right aims an ultra spirit blend. * He leagues with those who number in their tradeA falsehood told for every sixpence made;To Mammon mortgage all they have of heart,To keep their wealth, with priceless honor part.The fear of God the smallest of their fears,Rolling in wealth, but bankrupt in ideas ;
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THE TUMOR DOCTOR CONTEMPLATES SUICIDE. A SPECIMEN. 345 To save their purse, their souls contented lose,Ami count all.right, if worldly gain accrues;Who, when they die, no memory leave behind,But in the curses of their cheated kind! With these Sir Humbug riches seeks to gain,And feels his way through labrinths of chicane;Embezzles, swindles, lies, until at lastThe eye of Justice on his crime is cast,When, drugged with wealth, he quits our plundered shore,And Texas boasts one fiery hero more. The worst specimen of a travelling doctor I ever knewfirst appeared at R., one ofthe principal towns of Ver-mont, a few year.-; ago. Hisname was Mariam ; or thatwas what he called himself.He was a Canadian by birth,about twenty-five years ofage, short, dark-complex-ioned, and claimed to be theseventh- son of somebody.He was very illiterate, notbeing able to write a pre-scription, or his name, forthat matter, when he cameto R. I visited his rooms at thehotel, after he had been intown some weeks, and

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