Sir Benjamin Brodie's doings in diseases of the joints and spine / by Jonathan Dawplucker Clearthedust.

  • Clearthedust, Jonathan Dawplucker.
Date:
1852
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sir Benjamin Brodie's doings in diseases of the joints and spine / by Jonathan Dawplucker Clearthedust. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    But that is not the way we do business in London. We don’t want a clever man to cure our patients, and put them out of conceit with us. At that rate we should be ruined before the year be done. What we want is a safe man—a man who just knows enough to know how to hold his tongue, 01, if he needs must open his mouth, who will be sure to say, 4 What a difficult and important case it is, and how admirably it has been treated; and that nothing better can be done than to pursue the same practice.’ When did you ever hear of Messrs. Eoolem and Hocusem, the great West-end apothe¬ caries, calling in Dr. Dawplucker Clearthedust? They know better how their bread is buttered. Messrs. Foolem and Hocusem will not even meet Dr. Dawplucker Clearthedust; none of us will meet him. It would be absolute ruin to meet him! Where would be our four draughts a-day for months together, and all our other pretty little pickings, if we called in Dr. Dawplucker Clearthedust? To him, and such as he, we invariably give the cold shoulder. Our existence depends on our keeping down Dr. Dawplucker Clearthedust. We determine to keep him down; and, with all his ability, we know we can do it. Bless your life, we hold the public by the nose; we can make them believe whatever we like. We have only to 4 Pooh, pooh,’ them, when they mention the name of Dr. Dawplucker Clearthedust; and where we cannot do that, we japan his character. Besides, how easy it is to frighten sick people with the words 4 horrible poison,’ 4 kill or cure,’ and the like. As I said before, we don’t like clever men-we like safe men. Dr. Watergruel Wadeinblood, whose Practice of Physic we all think so highly of, is a sale man. . Dr. Watergruel Wadeinblood is the 4 dummy s we all call in to our medical cases. In surgical matters, we prefer Sir Bantomy Bungle. We have every confidence in Sir Bantomy. Sir