A dose for the doctors; or, the Aesculapian labyrinth explored. In a series of instructions to young physicians, surgeons, accouchers [sic], apothecaries, druggists, and chymists. Interspersed with ... risible anecdotes ... / Inscribed to the College of Wigs. By G. Glyster.

  • William Taplin
Date:
1789
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Credit: A dose for the doctors; or, the Aesculapian labyrinth explored. In a series of instructions to young physicians, surgeons, accouchers [sic], apothecaries, druggists, and chymists. Interspersed with ... risible anecdotes ... / Inscribed to the College of Wigs. By G. Glyster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    n, # ;] hours; the moft trifling indication of bufinefs is a point'in your favour, and ought by no means to be omitted. By the invariable good effecl of which rule, no melfenger what- ever fliould arrive from the country for medicines, but he muft be detained as long as pojfible; his preparations fhould 4- never be ready when called for ; on the contrary, his horfe fliould be hung or held at the door for half an hour at leafl; a double advantage is derived from this necelfary caution—the horfe at the door will prove a flriking objedl to the public, and the melfenger will affure the family you attend, that nothing but your great hurry occafioned the delay in his » K return. It will be ftricily proper for you, upon all occafions, to preferve the moft inflexible ferenity of countenance, even to extreme gravity; and this injun6lion becomes the more im- mediately neceflary, as there are a vaft variety of unexpected caufes for laughter, to which you will be open, in the fre- quent applications of unpolilhed nifties, for your great opinion and
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