Learned quackery exposed, or, Theory according to art : as exemplified in the practice of the fashionable doctors of the present day / by Samuel Thomson.

  • Thomson, Samuel, 1769-1843.
Date:
1836
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Credit: Learned quackery exposed, or, Theory according to art : as exemplified in the practice of the fashionable doctors of the present day / by Samuel Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    If any heat should still remain, The lancet must be used again. The man begins to pant for breath, The doctor says he's struck with death; All healing med'cine is denied, I fear the man is mortified. Before he dies his senses come, He bids them call his children home: He tells his children and his wife, That by a fool he'd lost his life. They weep and mourn to see him go, He bids adieu to all below; Like matyr'd Stephen, yields his breath, Forgiving them who caused his death. Soon as the man is d-ead and gone, The doctor's charges then come on; For forty pounds the bill is made, And, right or wrong, it must be paid. What sickness, sorrow, pain, and wo, The human race do undergo, By learned quacks, who sickness make, I fear, for filthy lucre's sake. CALOMEL. THE learned qua'cks of highest rank, (To pay their fees, we need a bank,) Combine all wisdom, art and skill, Science and sense, in Calomel. Since Calomel's become their toast, How many patients have they lost; How many thousands do they kill, Or poison with their Calomel? Howe'er their patients may complain, Of head, or heart, or nerve, or vein, Of fever high, or parch, or swell, The remedy is Calomel.