The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-03-21
PHILIP SYNG PHYSICK SUNG.
How Edinboro' Wits Celebrated an American
Doctor-Tests for Inebriety.

How Edinboro' Wits Celebrated an American
Doctor-Tests for Inebriety.
A recent interesting publication by Mr.. Philip
Syng Physick Conner, son of Commodore Con.
ner. Of the United States Navy, about his
fathers omman Of the Gulf squadron during
the Mexican war. recalls the memory of his an.
cestor and namesake. DR.. Philip Syng Physick.
DR.. Physick took his degree in medicine at
Edinburgh University in 1892. His name being
very singular but somewhat harmonious. ap.
pcaled to the Scotch wits of the period, three of
whom, one a lady. the others both advocates
and afterward Judges of Session. combined
to immortalize 1t in verse. This they did thus:
Sing Physicl Sing Physio! for Philip syng Physick
Is dubbed Doctor Phil for his wonderful skill:
Each sick phiz he'll physic, he'll cure every phthisic,
Their lips I'LL with Physic, with potion and pill.
II music, as Plato does stoutly maintain.
In every disease be a sovereign thing
For calming the spirits and cooling tho brain.
Be sure. Doctor Phil, when you phyGdc, to sing.
10! Physick! the college permits thee to work
In curing diseases the greatest OF curses.
syngl dance then with Joy when thou thinks't at one
Jerk
Physic can empty both stomach and purses.
What q MI up to Physic. II Philip syng Physick
His skill and his quill TO support him shall sing.
or fever and phthisic. each Master and Miss sick.
or Philip Syng Physick the praises shall sing.
Each gap in tho science Of physic to I'LL up.
Old Ph9bus young Philip Syng Physick bestows;
Then the potion and pill OF Phil still shall we swi Ill up,
And syng shnll be sung at the close OF the dose.
Tho Physic of Philip, so sweetly to swirl up
Health. Joy and delight among mortas shall bring.
With pap and with praise then still Philip Wen nllip,
And loud 10 Peans to synS ever sing.
VII.
o Death! since Phil physics, thy trumphs are past
And broken thy dart is, and blunt is thy sting;
Phil shall NIL us with physic, while Physick does last,
And while syng Physick physics, will Syng ever sing.
VIII.
To each creature his own is stnl dearest and sweetest;
Mine host loves old stingS. and honey the bee;
Then Physick with physic still Philip shall MI up.
And sung by syng Philip P%hiuppics shall be.
When Philips great Non as old chroniclers sing.
Fell sick. TO great Philip for physic he chung;
The Philip with physic so nlliped the king
That Physic and Phil by Timotheus were sung.
Now wake to Phil's pill box and Timothy's Tyre.
Let Fame to my hero their blazonments bring,
Like Philips great son he can blced-or the sire
Can physic like Philip. lkc Timothy sing.
syng Physick for fees seeks the sick man to phystc,
But unsousht hopes the foe Of his physic and skill;
So ne'er let Phil Physick OF physic the fee seek,
Nor thu sick man be fee sick OF Physic and Phil.
Let physio sing Philip, for Philip syng Physicl
From plsin Philip Physick Is dubbed Dr. Phil;
Sing syng. then. each patient, while Philip shall
physic,
And Physick shall nllip with potion and pill.
XII.
That Apollo the god is OF physic and song,
Each schoolboy ] think viii full readily hollow;
Then since to his name the same arts do belong,
BE Philip Syng ThySick our MIgnus Apollo.
Gus scotch writer's never expected. is that Dr.
Physick became in time the !" Father of Ancri.
can Surgery, and so bore out the predictions the
joyous Scots made In jest. DIR. Physick was
at Edinburgh no practised in Philadelphia, do.
ing great service during the yellow fever cpi-
denies OF 1893 and 1923. He had the fever
twice. dc died in Philadelphia. Dec. IL. 1887.
any one Of these verses might 10 required of a
man at a dinner. Here is another test, which is
also a toast:
Here's a health to all those that / love;
Here's a health 20 all those that love me;
Here's a health 10 all those that love those that ! love,
Ana To those that love those that love me.
Here's to those that love them that love us,
Here's TO them that love those that love US;
Here's TO those that love those that love those that
love those
That love those that love them that love us.
As test. any one of the stanzas herein set out
would prove, more searching than the old
q nly rnraI, though that as everyone knows.