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Medicine - Humor

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  • Three scenes illustrating the vanity of doctors. Lithograph by Béraud.
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    A letter from the facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe at Bath, to his loving brother the profound Greshamite, shewing, That the Scribendi Cacoethes is a Distemper arising from a Redundancy of Biliose Salts, and not to be Eradicated but by a Diurnal Course of Oyls and Vomits. With an appendix concerning the application of Socrates his clyster, and the use of clean linnen in controversy.

    Wagstaffe, William, 1685-1725. | Date: [1719]
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    Nugae canorae, or, Epitaphian mementos (in stone-cutters' verse) of the Medici family of modern times / by Unus Quorum.

    Wadd, William, 1776-1829. | Date: 1827
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    A letter from the facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe at Bath, to his loving brother the profound Greshamite, shewing, that the scribendi cacoethes is a distemper arising from a redundancy of biliose salts, and not to be Eradicated but by a Diurnal Course of Oyls and Vomits. With an appendix concerning the Application of Socrates his Clyster, and The use of Clean Linnen in Controversy.

    Wagstaffe, William, 1685-1725. | Date: 1719
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    Les marchands de santé / Pierre Véron.

    Véron, Pierre, 1833-1900. | Date: 1862
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    [Sic] humor : a collection of bloopers, malaprops, and other humorous material from the world of medical transcription / edited by Diane S. Heath.

    | Date: [1995], ©1995
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