Medical rhymes : a collection of rhymes of ye anciente time ... / selected and compiled from a variety of sources by Hugo Erichsen ; with an introduction by Willis P. King.

  • Erichsen, Hugo, 1860-1944.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical rhymes : a collection of rhymes of ye anciente time ... / selected and compiled from a variety of sources by Hugo Erichsen ; with an introduction by Willis P. King. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANATOMICAL LORE. WITH THE SCALPEL. BY H. SAVILE CLARKE. Here's our “subject,” taU and strong, With vermilion well injected; 'Where the blood once coursed along, Ready now to be dissected. Some one never claimed, it seems, Friendless amid London’s Babel: Hid he ever in his dreams See this table ? Here's a hand that once held fast All things pleasant, to its liking; iXow its active days are past, Or for friendship, or for striking. Nothing colder here could lie. Yet on some one’s palm there lingers Sense of its warm touch, while I Strip the fingers. How the dead eyes strangely stare. When I lift the lids above them ! Yet some woman lives, I swear. Who too well had learnt to love them; Some one since their final sleep Holds their .smiles in recollection. While I put them by to keep For dissection.