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…
Miss Sophronia’s Cure
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Browsing Category: Healing
A Cure for the Gout
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ONCE flourished a famed Dr. Bluff.
A diamond ’twas said in the rough,
He spake nothing save what he meant
And cared little whither it went.
Fin-de-Siecle Love Song
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GIVE me your hand and let me feel your pulse
And learn how fares your cardiac apparatus.
Whether it starts and beats uncertainly.
While Cupid aims his keen swift arrow at us…
Guneopathy
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I SAW a lady yesterday,
A regular M. D.,
Who ‘d taken from the Faculty
Her medical degree;
And I thought, if ever I was sick.
My doctor she should be…
The Doctor’s Story
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Good folks ever will have their way—
Good folks ever for it must pay.
But we, who are here and everywhere,
The burden of their faults must bear…
Health
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Health is no other, as the learned hold…
The Healer
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So stood of old the holy Christ
Amidst the suffering throng;
With whom His lightest touch…
The Doctors.
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The selfsame patient put to test
Two doctors, Fear-the-worst and Hope-the-best.
The latter hoped; the former did maintain…
The Doctor
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He bent above our darling’s bed
When her life was ebbing low,
And in his serious look we read
The truth we feared to know…