I have barely begun to exhaust the material I have been years collecting for this chapter; but I must desist, to give room for other important expositions.
IV.
MANUFACTURED DOCTORS.
| “One says, ‘I’m not of any school; No living master gives me rule; Nor do I in the old tracks tread; I scorn to learn aught from the dead.’ Which means, if I am not mistook, ‘I am an ass on my own hook.’” |
A BOSTON BARBER AS M. D.—A BARBER “GONE TO POT.”—FOOLS MADE DOCTORS.—BAKERS.—BARBERS.—“A LUCKY DOG.”—TINKERS.—ROYAL FAVORS.—“LITTLE CARVER DAVY.”—A BUTCHER’S BLOCKHEAD.—A SWEEPING VISIT.—HOP-PED FROM OBSCURITY.—PEDAGOGUES TURN DOCTORS.—ARBUTHNOT.—“A QUAKER.”—“WALKS OFF ON HIS EAR.”—WEAVERS AND BASKET-MAKERS.—A TOUGH PRINCE; REQUIRED THREE M. D.’S TO KILL HIM.—MARAT A HORSE DOCTOR.—A MERRY PARSON.—BLACK MAIL.—POLICE AS A MIDWIFE, ETC., ETC.
“Every man is either a physician or a fool at forty,” says the old proverb.