Learned quackery exposed, or, Theory according to art : as exemplified in the practice of the fashionable doctors of the present day / by Samuel Thomson.

  • Thomson, Samuel, 1769-1843.
Date:
1836
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Credit: Learned quackery exposed, or, Theory according to art : as exemplified in the practice of the fashionable doctors of the present day / by Samuel Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following Poem was written by me, while in New- buryport jail, in 1809, on a charge of murder, for which I was honorably acquitted, by a special session of the Supreme Court, without having an opportunity to make any defence. It was printed and circulated in a hand- bill, as a looking-glass in which the doctors might see their own conduct, and the effects of their medicine on patients in cases of Pleurisy and Fevers, when treated according to art. MEDICAL CIRCULAR. Secundum Jlrtem. The poor man's lamentation incases of sickness; and the advantage taken by the doctor, with the mode of treating Pleurisy and Fevers. MY wife is sick and like to die, Go for the doctor! is the cry; Haste, quick away, return with speed, She ne'er did more a doctor need. The doctor comes with great perfume, Like summer's rose in height of bloom; His skill appears the outward side, And thus he gains on woman's pride. Near the bed-side, where madam lies, He seats himself— You're sick, he cries; O yes, so very sick am I, If you can't help me, I shall die! A dangerous fever troubles thee, And 't is the raging Pleurisy; I know it by your lab'ring breast, The load with which your stomach's prest. Stagnation of the purple tide, The tort'ring pain that racks your side: And higher still, I fear 't will rise, ( I find it by your pulse, your eyes,)