At the barren heart of midnight,
When the shadow shuts and opens
As the loud flames pulse and flutter,
In Hospital: House-Surgeon
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Exceeding tall, but built so well his height
Half-disappears in flow of chest and limb;
Moustache and whisker trooper-like in trim…
The Surgeon’s Warning
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The Doctor whispered to the Nurse
And the Surgeon knew what he said,
And he grew pale at the Doctor’s tale
And trembled in his sick bed…
Miss Sophronia’s Cure
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HE treated me for mumps, did the blessed Dr. Stumps,
He treated me for measles when my soul was in the dumps;
And without a shade of question he improved my indigestion…
The Old Doctor
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They’ve got a new man down hyere
At Mason’s Cove, thet ‘s young
An’ got a heap o’ I’amln’
An’ quite a ‘ily tongue…
On Aufidius
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AHUM’ROUS fellow in a tavern late,
Being drunk and valiant, gets a broken pate -,
The surgeon with instruments and skill…
The General Practitioner
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HE must not walk his rounds for fear his patients think him poor,
And dearly do they love to see a carriage at their door;
And if his horse is fat, “He must have little work to do…
In Hospital: Scrubber
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She’s tall and gaunt, and in her hard, sad face
With flashes of the old fun’s animation
There lowers the fixed and peevish resignation…
The Doctor’s Window
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Whatever changes there may greet your eyes,
Let not your looks proclaim the least surprise;
It ‘s not your business by your face to show
All that your patient does not want to know…
To Dr. (Afterwards Sir Edward) Wilmot
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WITH doubtful strife, Humanity and Art
For conquest vie in Wilmot’s head and heart.
On his loved son Apollo did bestow…