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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    Lest the disorder I rebuke— So takes her blood, and gives a puke; Thus make the foe his hat to doff, Then takes his leave, and pushes off! At length, the doctor comes again: Oh! what! says he, not free of pain? ' No. you've destroy'd for life all chance, By physic, puking, and your lance. The doctor feels her pulse again, And says, the fever makes her pain! And quickly that I must subdue, I must kill that, or that will you. To kill the heat, he Nitre deals, Opium to quell the pain she feels; And when their office-work is o'er, Death knocks aloud at patient's door. The spirits muster up their force, T' oppose the fell destroyer's course; But with one touch he ends the strife.. By putting out the fire of life. The doctor says, I did my best, I hope your wife is gone to rest; u Your part you now must soon fulfil, That is, to pay my moderate bill. My bill is rendered in this way: Your wife's attendance night and day; To physic, bleeding, drops, and stuff, It's FIFTY DOLLARS—cheap enough! Where is the pity they should feel ? They charge the same to Mil as heal! And crave withal the people's thanks, And seize the prize and leave the blanks.* In case of fever, see them come, And the whole system down they run; And lest the man should rise at last, With doctor's cords they bind him fast. The doctor says, how still he lies! How fine the med'cine is! he cries; His blood is took, the fever gone, And thus the killing job is done. ' Take the money and leave the dead body.