Being done good : an amusing account of a rheumatic's experiences with doctors and specialists who promised to do him good / by Edward B. Lent, with a foreword by Charles M. Skinner.

  • Lent, Edward Burcham, 1869-
Date:
[1904], ©1904
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Credit: Being done good : an amusing account of a rheumatic's experiences with doctors and specialists who promised to do him good / by Edward B. Lent, with a foreword by Charles M. Skinner. 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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    wonderful advances made by the followers of the healing art during the past 5,500 years. At present, the author has no de- sire, like Peary, to make another expe- dition. In another 5,500 years, however, he would like to wake up and try some of the things that science has devised in the mean time. The evolution of our crude methods to perfection at that date are pos- sible. When that happy time comes he hopes to be served up in style, with gravy and chestnut dressing, at the annual feast of some medical society. The present methods leave a man only half baked, and the feeling is not so pleasant as that which our successors will enjoy. If any of the technical terms used in this medical treatise are not understood by the reader, and can not be found in the dictionary, the author is in a position to cite patent medicine advertising taken