Show PHYSICIANS WIT British Medical Journal Every doctor has had unpleasant experiences with the economIcal minded per person person son who takes advantage of a casual meeting at the dInner table or elsewhere to importune hIm for counsel as to hIs aliments ailments It is not always easy to get rid of these pests Abernethy was as we know equal to the occasion when a wealthy alderman whom he met at a friends house recited his catalogue of woes ending up with the question What should I take The reply was Take advice A French doctor r r recently rid himself in inn inn n equally ingenious manner of a pa patient patient tient who sought to Impose on his good goodnature goodnature nature He was accosted one afternoon on a crowded boulevard b by a lady no notorious notorious for this practice She at one once began to tell teU of her afflictions making particular complaint of pain In her hypo gastric region To which the doctor STave grave STavely gravely ly My lIy dear madam I must examine you youBe ou Be good enough to take off your you things |