“ I list, as thy heart and ascending aorta
Their volumes of valvular harmony pour,
And my soul, from that muscular music has caught a
New life, ‘ mid its dry anatomical lore.
Monthly Archives: May 2021
The Consultation
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THREE doctors, met in consultation.
Proceed with great deliberation;
The case was desperate, all agreed.
Peace Born of Pain
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IN probing Life, wise Doctors look
On it, as men must look on Life
Who, in its very breath
Kindness First Known in a Hospital
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THE place seemed new and strange as death.
The white strait bed, with others strait and white.
Like graves dug side by side at measured lengths.
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 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.
His Pneumogastric Nerve
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UPON an average, twice a week,
When anguish clouds my brow.
My good physician friend I seek
To know “what ails me now.”
A Discovery in Biology
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I THINK I know what Cupid Is:
Bacteria Amoris;
The Doctor’s Message
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MY little patient, gone so soon before,
To that mysterious, much desired shore;
Whenyou come there, where yet I hope to be,
-hat will you tell the blessed Lord for me ?
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.