“Dose her,” all the doctors said;

“Dose her, Hughes, or she will die.”

Dosed her with his deadly stuff

Till she groaned, “My end is nigh.”

Then the doctors said, “Enough!

Make her laugh, Hughes, or she’ll cry.”

“I’m a killing man,” he coughed,

“But no killing doctor—see?”

She forgot the dose, and laughed.

She was cured, and it was he.