FAMOUS SURGEONS' SAYINGS
A man of innumerable enthusiasms and much good-humoured philosophy was Sir James Cantlio, tho surgeon, whose death at 75 years was announced the other day. Here are a few characteristic Cantlieisms:-—
Dance before breakfast —not a waltz, but a hornpipe. I wouldn't smoke a cigarette for a £5 note, and that is saying a lot for a Scotsman. . , . .
When nightcaps were worn men kept their hair to old age. A nightcap is as necessary in this damp climate as clothing. ' The brainworkcr expends more of the vital principles of his body in half-an-honr's work than a man engaged in gsercises does in a dajs.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 151, 23 December 1926, Page 8
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107FAMOUS SURGEONS' SAYINGS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 151, 23 December 1926, Page 8
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