A CONSULTATION "IN ARTICULO."
Doctors, diplomatic doctors, mixers of the paper-pill.
Fuming, fussing, drafts discussing, o'er a dying nation,
Protocol-prescription-mongers, slow to cure, but strong to kill,
Spreading words, like blister-ointment, to allay an irritation.
Clarendon, M.D., prescribeth sedatives and cooling potion;
Le Docteur Drouyn de L'Huys to stimulants inclineth;
Hofartzt Bruck of vis naturæ medicatrix hath a notion;
Medicus Aupick, looking wise, doth nothing, but defineth.
Wrangle, jangle, argol-bargol, still the Doctors diplomatic