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…
The General Practitioner
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Browsing Category: Doctors
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…
Ode to a Doctor
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THE Doctor comes, and quick prescribes;
And then, when we are better,
He sends a bill that reads like this…
The Consultation
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THREE doctors, met in consultation.
Proceed with great deliberation;
The case was desperate, all agreed.
Surgery vs. Medicine
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I AM a surgeon, and in making this assertion
‘Tis my apology for doing what I can
To set aside that undeserved aspersion
That says, while medicine is quite as old as man.
A Fourteenth Century Doctor
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WITH us ther was a Doctor of Phisike.
In all this world ne was ther non him like
To spek of phisike, and of surgerie :
For he was grounded in astronomie.
Surgery Vs. Medicine
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I am a surgeon, and in making this assertion
‘ Tis my apology for doing what I can
To set aside that undeserved aspersion…
The Physician
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ANOTHER, all whose face
Bore marks of patience, train’d by years of care.
His glasses, shifted oft with easy grace…
The Quack Doctor’s Proclamation
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AN astonishing Doctor has just come to town,
Who will do all the faculty perfectly brown :
He knows all diseases, their causes and ends;
And he “begs to appeal to his medical friends…