GETTING A SWEAT.
It is well-known that the veterans who preside at the examinations of surgeons question minutely those who wish to become qualified. After answering very satisfactorily to the numerous inquiries made, a young gentleman was asked if he wished to give bis patient a profuse perspiration, what he would prescribe He mentioned many diaphoric medicines in case the first failed, but the unmerciful questioner thus continued : ‘ Pray, sir, suppose none of those succeeded, what step would you take next?’ • Why, sir,’ rejoined the enraged and harassed young Esculapius, * I would send him here to be examinee, and if that did not give him a sweat, I do not know what would. ’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XII, Issue VI, 10 February 1894, Page 144
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113GETTING A SWEAT. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XII, Issue VI, 10 February 1894, Page 144
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