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Excerpt from The Funny Side of Physic, or the Mysteries of Medicine, Presenting the Humorous and Serious Sides of Medical Practice: An Expose of Medical Humbugs, Quacks, and Charlatans in All Ages and All Countries The books which most please while instructing the reader, are those which mingle the lively and gay with the sedate spirit in the narration of important facts. The verdict of the reader of this work must be (it is modestly suggested), that the author has luckily hit the happy vein in its construction. Of all facts which bear upon human happiness or sorrow, those which serve to increase the former, and alleviate or banish the latter, are most desirable for everybody to know; and of all pro fessions which most intimately concern the personal well-being of the public at large, that of the physician is most important. The author of this book has Spared no pains of research to collect the facts of which he discourses, and has endeavored to cover the whole ground embraced by his subject with pertinent and important suggestions, statements, scientific discoveries, inci dents in the career of great physicians, etc., and to fix them in the reader's mind by apt anecdotes, which will be found in abun dance throughout the work. There is no better man in the world than the true physician, and no more base wretch than the ordinary Quack, or medical charlatan. If the author has spared no pains of study to make his book acceptable, he may be said, also, to have as unsparingly visited his indignation upon the quacks who have all along the line of historic medicine disgraced the physician's and the sur geon's profession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
