The North-Carolina standard., 1845-10-29
anecdotes of English PAysiciams In the year


anecdotes of English PAysicioms In the yea
1860, an old Physician by the name of Cadogar
f1ourished. His medical fame increased very
slow, and being in somewhat Indifferent pecunary
circumstances, he married a wealthy old lady
over whose fortune he had an entire control. Like
most mercantile marriages, it was not of the happi
est kind. The lady had a suspicion on her mind
that the doctor would one day poison her with
his physic in order to get her out of the way, and
feeling i'll on one occasion, she exclaimed thai
she was poisoned. Poisoned ~ said the doctor
to number of his friends who were present
6 how can that possibly be? Whom do you ac-
cuse ofths crime ?" You," replied the indignant
wife. "Gentlemcn," said the doctor with con.
siderable nonchaance F." it is perfectly false. You
are quite welcome to open her at once, and you
will then discover that calumnyI" -
DR.. FothsrgAl was q celebrated physician OF
EondS WI1o al b faclsee ia me wear r74o Oh
great skill, much charity, and peculiar gravity Of
character. Just before his DEATH gentleman of
Cumberland, an Incorporate man, possessed of few
christian virtues, applied TO the doctor for advice
FFotheEgiH who knew the character of the man,
but chose to conceal his knowledge, inquired
what was the ailment to which the patient replied
he was very we'll in health, eat well, drank
WELL and slept we'll, but wished to know how he
might be guarded against sudden snaps The
venerable physician feeling supreme contempt
lOC 50 QlSSolutG dIlu dD1tluOueO CDdTdCLGT, gave
him prescription for his complaint, in the fol-
lowing deserved reproof "Do justice, lore m.er-
cy a0oM hunsbly zcitA thy GOd and do not snap
The bottle too ottem." s'."e. -., ..-.
1t is related also of Dr. FothergiI that he was
likely to be prevented from finishing his toilette
one Sunday, owing to the non-appearance of the
barber-a Circumstance which brought on the
6dgets. A friend who was by, observing his dis
quietude, remarked "that his servant, Emanuel,
eho,,o He
quickness which sometimes eyercame him. hasti-
ly replied, If thou mean'st to preserve authority
in thy house never suffer servant to take thee by
he nose" :'H.a
DR.. George Cheyne was another English ply
sician in rather extensive practice. and who died
in l743 Among his patients was the celcbrat-
ed Beau Nash who, on being asked one day, by |
Cheyne if he had followed his last prescription, re-
piled in the negative, adding I" If had, doctor, l
should certainly have broken my neck, for i threw
i out of two pair of stairs window" s--i.1gs
A lady whose fondness for generous living, had |
given her furnishing face and carbuncled nose
consulted Dr. Cheyne Upon surveying herself
N the glass, she exclaimed, Where in the name
IF wonder, doctor, did ] get such nose as this2"
tsOut of the decanter, Madam, out ofthe decanter,
replied the doctor. a~1e rs,sg nts.asar 4afn s-o5
"A patient, accompaniedby Beau Nash, visited
DIR. Cheyne for the purpose of ascertaining the
;ause of a slight abdominal swelling, under which |
he was laboring. On examining the patient the
loctor pronounced the swelling TO be occasioned
,y collection of water, and that it would be ne
:essary to be tapped. at cannot be water" said
he patient, cit may be wine" e No, no, my good
elIow,n said Nash, " if it had been wine you
would long before this have tapped it yourself"
4 Making q Will. This is a solemn duty too
,tten neglected either from dilatory habit, or,
ehat is more common, from strange weakness
Il superstitious aversion which many feeh to en-
yage in matter that seems to border on the grave
md which they half believe is an insidous init
nation from the grim monarch, that they will
oon, thereafter, have a more formal "notice to
Tuit /" This idle superstition is closely allied to
hat morbid fear of death, which poisons the hap
,iness of some. The ealamities so frequently at
endanton the neglect of this duty, till after the
nlnd and body have lost their judgment and vi
,or, or till death suddenly arrests them without "a
avihg made any formal declaration Of their most
arrest wishes may create in such people someI
impressions and resolves; but their +
abitual repugnance whispers ers-to-morrow-to-
the last morrow finds them, also1 i
Eithout Will, and the whole of their immense Q
roperty squandered among a hundred remote, q
ngfateful and hated relatives to the total exclu-
ion Of those who have been nourished IN their
osoms, and who were the fondest objects OF their
arthly attachments Register IS