Athothis : a satire on modern medicine / by Thomas C. Minor.
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CHAPTER IX. IN WHICH DOCTOR PAULUS ANDROCYDES BOASTFULLY NAMES NUMEROUS MODERN PHYSICIANS WHO HAVE FIGURED IN THE REALMS OF LITERATURE, AND ATHO- THIS ADMITS THAT THE PROFESSION HAS CONTRIBUTED SOME LITTLE TO THE STORE OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE. IRCLING over the city for a few moments, the two spirits presently alighted on a lofty church steeple and rested on a large gilt hand, the index finger of which pointed heavenwards. Hun- dreds of feet below them were busy streets, thronged with myriads of bustling citizens and moving animals attached to rumbling street cars and vehicles. The ring- ing of bells, the buzzing of machinery, and the continuous hum of human voices commingling made a sound like the angry roaring of a swarming bee-hive. Perched at this altitude, Paulus Androcydes broke the momentary silence of the upper atmosphere by indig- nantly remarking : " 'T is strange, my Egyptian friend, that you so constantly deride and belittle the labors of recent workers in the field of human knowledge, attribut- ing all valuable discoveries and classical writings to the ancients. Speaking of the more modern medical writers alone, without enumerating the innumerable names of other authors who have contributed energy and vast stores of wisdom to the scanty supply derived from former ages, I can fairly startle you by the mere mention of a list of famous men whose names will be heralded