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Page 193 - Zimmerman, who was very eminent as a physician, went from Hanover to attend Frederick the Great in his last illness. One day the king said to him: "You have, I presume, sir, helped many a man into another world?
Page 174 - Who works from morn till set of sun, Is all day long upon the run, And yet whose work is never done ? The doctor. Who, when at last he seeks repose, And falls into a gentle doze, And makes sweet music through his nose, (The doctor...
Page 87 - you can't do that, Mrs. Norton. The farm isn't yours to give away.' 'The farm isn't mine?' she said in a voice decidedly stronger than before. 'No, the farm isn't yours. You have only a life interest in it.' 'This farm that I've run for goin' on forty-three year next spring isn't mine to do with what I please with it?
Page 44 - Patient: As we have known each other so long. Doctor, I do not intend to insult you by paying your bill. But I have left you a handsome legacy in my will. Physician: Very kind of you, I am sure. — Allow me to look at that prescription again. There is a slight alteration I should like to make in it.
Page 186 - There's no excuse for you being afflicted," said a friend. " I used to have rheumatism. When it would strike me I would go home and have my wife throw her arms around my neck and give me a massage treatment. It helped me every time. You ought to try it.
Page 99 - The attack comes on suddenly every Sunday; no symptoms are felt on Saturday night ; the patient sleeps well, eats a hearty breakfast, but about church time the attack comes on, and continues till services are over for the morning.
Page 48 - The following incident fell under the observation of one of the best-known members of the faculty of the Physicians and Surgeons' Medical College recently: An Irish woman was ill — more seriously so than she had thought. On careful diagnosis it was found that extreme care was necessary in her case, so the attending physician said : "I suspect it will be absolutely necessary for you to have a trained nurse.
Page 173 - If he visits them less frequently — thus lessening their expense — The chances are he'll be accused of wilful negligence. He must work all day and half the night, and never say he's tired, For the public look upon him simply as a servant hired ; And should he take a holiday, he'll find when he comes back Some patients have resented it by giving him
Page 65 - Thanks," said the reporter, looking at the card. "You are next door to Dr. Rybold, I believe. Are you acquainted with him ?" " No, sir,
Page 58 - Ma wants a package of dye and she wants a fashionable color," said a little girl to a druggist. "A fashionable color?" echoed the pharmacist. "What does she want it for ; eggs or clothes?" "Well," replied the girl, "the doctor says ma has stomach trouble and ought to diet. And ma says if she has to dye it she might as well dye it a fashionable color.