Rush Medical College - Pulse Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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5 51 5 I-S i. QL' g:,Y1l': A-122 3 L CQ ,JI-a1 :iwfW'5f'24i9 fi J Gbe 1ReguIar School vs. Tbomoeopatbxg QPRIZE Huxiorcotvs SKETCH.l lt happened in one of those numerous student boarding houses on Hermitage avenue, and will go down as the classical joke of the year for the Quartier Latin. Three homeops and three Rush men roomed in this joint, and that fact insures that those tobacco-smoked walls have often heard the questions of similia and .rationalism hotly discussed. It was during one of these discussions that a V95 Rush man contemptuously took up the newly hlled medicine chest of one of the homeops, and after removing the lN'lerry-Christmas-to-XYillie-from-Papa card on it, announced that he was a bit hungry and thirsty, and had a good mind to eat the contents of the case. You wouldn't dare to drink a half of that littlest vial of Belladonna, ventured XYillie. Oh, yes, I would, remarked Rush '95, Get on to this, as he measured off half and downed it. For Heavens sake! stop! You'll die! came en chorus from the homeops. XYhy, that's a pudding, put in another Rush man. l'll eat every pill there for a nickel. The homeops were about recovered from their shock, and thought that he had established a tolerance, but that it was very dangerous. XYell, come, repeated the Rush man, what'll you bet I can't eat every pill there, and drink every vial in one dose? Any- thing you like, you blamed guy. Here now, shut up or match this ten dollars. Now this happened at the beginning of the month, and mirac- ulously for a Rush man, the tenner was produced, and the book-keeper, who roomed down stairs, was called up to hold the stakes and see the funf' Hell be sick before he gets the first down, exclaimed the excited 154

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Virides Conroy, T.-Sick. l.f'VVl1E1t is the trouble? T.eGot wheels in his optic radiation Katie Crowley. l'm heah, Doctah, but I've not ot accustomed to thc atmos pheah yet. . Sport Conaway. T.-Sick. I.-What is the matter with him? T.4He's got paralysis of thc optic ncrxe l thinl Skinny Duncan. 'F'-Sick. I.-XVhat's the diagnosis ? T.-Too much malt extract Surgeon Donahue. T.-D. J. Tammany Daniels. Heah, Doctor. P. and S. Dwight. T.AHe couldn't come, Doctor Somebody stole his pony Qld Dry Solution Eckard. T.-He is getting his teeth hlled with boarding house hash Old Melancholy lingalls. T.-Coming. I.-All right. XYe will marl him L Gentleman jack Frost. 'FA Comatose. Hippocrates Fullenwicler. T.- Football. Filaria Fitzpatrick. T.-Senior. Omega First. Here. l.-XVell. The First shall be last and the last shall be first So, Mr. First, what is the lesson this morning P 153

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homeop. XVhy, really, you mustn't do it. Honestly, they will kill you. Hold on, for goodness sakesl Don't drink that. My God, man, that is poison! Hold him, fellows, don't let him do Say, buckle up, you sugar-pill, you'll spoil my digestion. Down goes the Gelsemium, fifth potential. This is awful! My Heavens, boys, he'll die! Leave him alone, you geese, that's the easiest ten he ever earned. XVe must give him an emetic. Don't let him kill himself. Don't be fools. Say, but that arsenic is good: wish there was more of iti Never mind, boys, he'll probably vomit it all up. But you're out ten dollars. Oh, I don't care about that, but he'll surely die. Professor Milk said twenty drops of that arsenic was toxic. Ah! the last bottle: powder, too. Podophyl- lin. Wfell, heres to my liver, long may it wave. And the jumble of remarks stopped, as three pale faces and three red faces turned to the stakeholder and watched him give twenty dollars to one of the red faces. Good night, fellows, said the red faces, weve enjoyed ourselves very much. XYish you had had enough to go 'roundf' And they took the stakeholder out with them. Wfhile they were on their way to the nearest restaurant, they stopped at a drug store and paid a bill that read: Q' - ,' , A , s-1 0-1 -1 syxv'vQv-ful, .f.,'v.'v, Xfy- kr-.fvQ- X s . vi si-i ,1 - 1'- , L - ,, ,J , .1 - NJXVV- W- QQ- ev ' .J .V tv v- Ss IVIOFZTAR PESTLE. i. ll YP ' 1 - l' ' f-.i'-l'Ali-.- '-v- i iii- H- l --: i' wb' Wwvvvvvlvnvv v.vV lv3'vvv?.f3 vvvvlvvv ,. - Qfiilfw, i.- ., ., ii NrlifYvQ.. vw.-fav' Jvvvv.v'vJ vw' vw-fvvlw ,-rv.-f' r' , , l U , . ii ,m,.'lljAi-rf, .A,.,.i v,k,,i. -,,, - , vvvvskvvvvvvdv Yfvvv ,N vvwful Jvwl bfi vvvv 1 , x , ,. .idx l-f., - .V . r-A, 1. lg l Y vvwvv vfdvvdv vvrvvvvv, - - ' I -qv ll L ED1ToRs OF THE PULSE: Gezzfltwzezz-The above is based upon truth, and the details alone are fiction. Mr. XY. H. Lewis of the senior class was one of the chief actors. Very respectfully, TXYELYE. 155