A lady sent for me in haste to come and see,
What her condition for a cure might be.
Dear me! a patient--what a happy tone,
To have a patient, and one all my own--
To have a patient and myself be feed,
Raised expectations very high indeed--
I saw a practice growing from the seed.
--_Wm. Tod Helmuth._
1511
Fretting is the doctor's best friend all over the whole world.
1512
Temperance and toil are the two real physicians of mankind.
1513
The purse of the patient frequently, alas! protracts his cure.
--_Zimmerman._
1514
Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of
exercise and temperance.
--_Addison._
1515
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
1516
The thirsty earth soaks up the rain
And drinks and gaps for drink again;
The plants suck in the earth, and are
With constant drinking fresh and fair.
--_A. Cowley._
1517