THE MEDICAL EXAM.

Evening Star, Issue 15968, 23 November 1915, Page 1

THE MEDICAL EXAM.

A TRIBUTE TO DR "E." What did the doctor say, my boy I What did the doctor ta.y 1

Ho told me my liver was all of a. quiver, My heart had a Mitral murmur; That one of iny eyes was telling him lies, My muscles ought to ho firmer. He said my Tummy felt a bit rummy, And so did the top of my head ; My chest it was weak, for one lung had a squeak— In fact, that I ought to bo dead. That I suffered from pains and had varicose veins Was simply an evident fact. And hernia rings were terrible things, And he told mo that, mine wcro i cracked j j He told mo my knees were 20 degrees j From the -angle required by law, | And he said that my teeth were all right j underneath, j But I carried an ossified jaw. j Ho 7nade me hop all over the shop, j And stand on the- tip of my toes ; I And said that my brains weighed 25 grains. And that I had a growth in my nose. i He said that my skin was a little too tiiin. •. My !■<;■;,vii a. little too dull, : T : i:;! the l>ack of my neck wa.s a. terribio wreck, .Aii'i so was the base of nip skull. lie told me to cou'.'h. and I thought he .■=;■.:''! "Off." " \Vh-:t happened is hard to explain, i'-.-r I wouldn't, expose the doctor who blows.; Hill I'll bet- it don't- happen again. i But he passed me as "Fit," for he said 1 y<iii arc iTi'itFor tiie way that you swallowed my ; fun : i Now I'm longing for work, and the Tor- ! rible Turk-, ! With the steel on the end of my gun. ! ' s'm!s. ; Dunedm.