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.

  • Taplin, William, 1740?-1807
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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    you never knew. Tliefe form an excellent combination to excite the admiration and report of thqfe who have occafion to court the ^ilTiRance of your extenfive abilities.—To gradually heighten which furprize, your interior (or audit room) muft be a perfeffc 'Golgotha.—A proficiency in the fcience of ojleology, muft be power- fully imprefied upon the fenfes of the trembling vifitors, by a profufion of Jkeletons in different dates; let the awfulnefs of the fcene be rendered ftil! more flriking, by a variety of fubjefts fufpended in fpirits, interfperfed with fingular anatomical and in- jeSted preparationsy both wet and dry; giving to the whole ad- ditional force by the introdudlion of illpapedjifbes)* as the finifliing ftroke to a well formed plan of chirurgical qftentation. Remember to let the certificates of your profefiional qualifications, from your daSexentleSturing tutors, be fo placed (in elegant frames) as to meet the eye in a confpicuous direftion; leafi: that part of your patients, who condefeend to vifit you in this gloomy recefs, fhould have reafon to conclude you a confummate dunce and mofl; illiterate booby, if thefe learned profeffors had not done your friends the favour to certify' to the contrary: and this they always chearfully