RHUBARB AND SODA
Stories of the great Victorian and Edwardian physicians and surgeons were told recently by Sir St. Clair Thomson, the throat and nose specialist, in an address delivered to the Royal Society of Medicine. One of them concerned an illness of Queen Victoria, when Sir William Jenner was summoned to Windsor by Dr. James Reid. “Sir William came, examined, wrote a prescription and went away after assuring Her Majesty that there was nothing seriously amiss,” said Sir St. Clair Thomson. “Queen Victoria did not have his prescription made up. Instead, she requested Dr. Reid to send for Sir William Gull. He came, examined, wrote a prescription and confirmed his colleague’s opinion. Whereupon the Queen said: ‘Well, Dr. Reid, now that I have heard what these two great men have to say, I won’t take their prescriptions. I’ll just ask you to order another bottle of your rhubarb and soda mixture, which always does me so much good.”
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22595, 28 December 1938, Page 6
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