Among the faculty / [W. Pitt Byrne].

  • Byrne, Wm. Pitt, Mrs., 1819-1894.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Among the faculty / [W. Pitt Byrne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t c Byrne . // \ kx CeW1 UAy , vc CHAPTEK YII. 54 0 AMONG THE FACULTY. • xin ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.” Abu Avicenna. En fait de medecine, nous sommes tous des aveugles. Mais les medecins sont les quinzevingts.” . . Chamfort. “ His pills as thick as hand-grenades they flew,1 And where they fell as certainly they slew.” Roscommon. TjlOPTUNATELY for myself, I have had so little to do J- practically with medical men, or—absit omen with medical women, that it is little personal information I can impart as to bygone M.D.’s. . % earIy recollections of a “ doctor,” as such, are asso- ciated with the periodical nursery visits of Mr. (by courtesy, Dr. Pullen, a typical country practitioner, who would pro- ably be still remembered, if there were any surviving fre- quenters of Tunbridge Wells of that date, as having his habitat on the Pantiles. He was a heavy-looking man, past middle age, always wore black clothes and a white “ choker ” and used to drive a gig, with a small boy to hold the horse when he got down. To the best of my recollection, his countenance was the reverse of intelligent, and he made himself obnoxious to us, as children, because he arbitrarily pronounced against the use of boiled milk as nursery diet “ r7Uer 0f which we condemned, eyen7n winter, to cold raw milk. If I mention this little matter, it is to show up the 21 Doctors on the Pantile!