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.

  • Hugo Erichsen
Date:
1884
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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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    Don’t give up the case ’till flowers cea.se to bloom, Because sadness comes o’er you, de.spondencc, and gloom! Don’t take a back seat while blossoms still flutter, For there’s flowers in physic “too utterly utter!” THE YOUNG LEECH. [The following piece of poetry of some professional interest is taken from a copy of the “ Illuminated Magazine,” vol. 2, p. 159, London, edited by Douglas Jerrold. It is signed “Mourant the Monk, Abbey of St. Denis, December, 1843.” The book is very scarce, and we have not seen it in print elsewhere]: Hard by to Londonnes anciente town There dwelt a wise young Leech, Whose conduct for propriety Sure, none could e’er impeach. But well I wot that he was poor, And seldom took a fee; And few and scant the drugs he had In his small surgerie. And though he had but patients few To visit and attend. Yet other patience had he quite Enough, you may depend. It happened then, so says my tale. That on a certainne daye A breathless messenger arrived, To summon him awaye.