Medical rhymes : A collection of rhymes of ye anciente time, and rhymes of the modern day ... / Selected and comp. from a variety of sources, by Hugo Erichsen ... With an introduction by Prof. Willis P. King.

  • Hugo Erichsen
Date:
1884
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Credit: Medical rhymes : A collection of rhymes of ye anciente time, and rhymes of the modern day ... / Selected and comp. from a variety of sources, by Hugo Erichsen ... With an introduction by Prof. Willis P. King. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    THE DOCTOR HIMSELF. TO A PHYSICIAN. 0 ! watched for, longed for, through the heavy hours Of pain and weakness, what a gift is thine ! ^y]lat a proud science, Godlike and benign! To pour on withering life sweet mercy's showers, And on the drooping mind's exhausted powers Like a revivifying sunbeam shine ; For thy next smile what sleepless eyelids pine ! What sinking hearts to which the summer flowers Can breathe no joy ! How many a day 1 heard thy footsteps come and die away, And clung unto that sound as if the earth, With all its tones of melody and mirth. To me had naught of interest—nothing worth The brief, bright moments of thy kindly stay. —Medical Herald. THE PHYSICIAN. BY H. ERICHSEX, 31. D. Hail to the doctor ! On he toils In happy and in weary days; His enemy, Grim Death, he foils And full of hardships are his ways.