Chicago School of Medicine and Surgery - Medicos Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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LITERATURE Ulibe itlilultiplping 5-Blehits One little doctor Looks you thru and thru, Can't diagnose your case Then there are two. Two little doctors Failing to agree, Call a consultation Then there are three. Three little doctors Poke you o'er and o'er, Send for a specialist Then there are four. Four little doctors Wonder you're alive, Another brings a stomach pump Then there are five Five little doctors Trying fancy tricks Order in an alienist Then there are six. Six little doctors Preparing for your heaven In comes an O. D. Then there are seven. Seven little doctors Decide to opera te, Call in a surgeon Then there are eight. Eight little doctors Think its in your spine Ask for a neurologist Then there are nine. Nine little doctors All of them are men Send for hlary Walker Then there are ten. Ten little doctors Standing by your bed ' Come to a decision Find that you are dead. 1 W. R. C. Page 190

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lil i F l l , L 1 fr E R A T U R E N T T i X His weakening form was worn. and wet, i ' X All dribbling, dropping, dripping, ' l His wounds and cuts he'd ne'er forget, i From stumbling, stubbing, slipping i The noises that did greet his ear- Such screeching scratching, screaking, I ' And all about him he could hear l WX 5 A squeeling, squalling, squeaking. l . if 2 5 , l And as they neared the blinding light, X ' 1 So fiery fierce, and furious. l l l ' He stopped and stood in tremulous fright, At what he supposed so spurious, j For there he saw in the brilliant flame, Il 1 With devilish dancing diablerie, 5' l All torturing Hell so void of shame, w In rollicking, rolling, revelry. I There too he saw his classmates all, So nutant, numb and nude, Threaded each one on a spindle tall, 1 Y A Where they sizzled, steamed and stewed, For underneath-a great white pot, , All gleaming, glowing, glaring, 5 ' And leaping flames astounding hot, , So flagrant flagitious and Haring. I , T I ' The devils then did spy him theie, 3 1 As he fain would falter and faint, l They siezed him then and stripped him bare, ' l , And roped in rigid restraint ' His poor bruised bones to a red hot cross, ' ' , And imhed Oh his howling head, 5 1' And as he Watched they then did toss E ., His limbs in liquid lead. - -l , f f Unceasing to add to his woeful lot, I I, l And burdens bemusing bring, I I ' They tied each hair in a double knot, X For the comb to catch and cling, 3 They reddened his eyes with rings below, A And rubbed his reason into rust, 1 And made him forget the things he should know I, With dumbing dunces dust. U 1 At last he was taken with fiendish mirth X , il i As high as devils do dare, W if '- 1 He then was dropped and toward the earth, l 'l Q Did asunder tear the air, l, . Like a ball of lead he bounced in bed, QX With a scramble and sickening scream T- Q T T-Ie was not dead-just a crammed full head l 5 f Decreed this dreadful dream. ,I l if R.s.c l g 3 4 iq 1 i ,A 5 'ii H l' i 4. ' l if l lf Page192 . , l , i .