THERE in the corner Pharmacy,
This lithesome lady lingers.
And potent pills and philters true
Are fashioned by her fingers…
Feminine Pharmacy
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Monthly Archives: March 2021
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…
Aesthetics in Medicine
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BY your leave, I desire just to call your attention,
And will barely suggest that I simply would mention
The fact that the science of beauty is rarely
Brought into physic, — at least not quite fairly!
Epitaph
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HERE lies a fool flat on his back,
The victim of a cancer quack;
Who lost his money and his life,
By plaster, caustic, and by knife.
The case was this — a pimple rose…
A Doctor’s Motto
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A DOCTOR, who, for want of skill.
Did sometimes cure — and sometimes kill;
Contrived at length, by many a puff…
To a Young Physician
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THE paths of pain are thine. Go forth
With healing and with hope;
The suffering of a sin-sick earth
Shall give thee ample scope…
My Uniformed Nurse
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A SWEETLY winsome face.
Ripe lips and merry eyes
Where tender pity lies…
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 Remedy Worse Than The Disease
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I sent for Ratcliffe, was so ill,
That other doctors gave me over…
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…