Athothis : a satire on modern medicine / by Thomas C. Minor.

ical student, published Endymion, Lamia, and Isabella; Walcott (Peter Pindar) wrote his Lousiad ; John Good, his Lucretius ; John Leydon, Scenes of Infancy; John Aiken, Poetical Criticisms; David Moir, his Domestic Lyr- ics. In America, Joseph Rodman Drake wrote his American Flag and Culprit Fay, and Oliver Wendell Holmes many delightful poems, including The Old Consti- tution. " Doctors Mitchell, Bigelow, Holland, Francis, and Meigs have also been charming versifiers. "Not content with the field of poetry, the doctor has boldly entered the realms of fiction. We notice in the eighteenth century, Tobias Smollet's Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Count Fathom, and Humphrey Clinker ; and Oliver Goldsmith's famous Vicar of Wakefield. " In the present century, we had Helenus Scott's Ad- venture of a Rupee : Warren's Diary of a Physician, and Ten Thousand a Year ; Charles Lever's Harry Lorrequer; Charles O'Malley's Jack Hinton and Roland Cashellj Oliver Wendell Holmes' Guardian Angel; J. G. Hol- land's Nicholas Minturn ; Weir Mitchell's In War Times, Hammond's ' Lai,' and many others. Not satisfied with pure fiction, the doctor has also entered the dramatic field. Thus we see Thomas Lodge's Wounds of Civil War and Looking Glass of London ; James Drake's Sham Lawyer; Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer; Benjamin Hoadley's Suspicious Husband; George Sewall's Walter Raleigh; Paul Hiffernan's Earl of Warwick ; and Fred- erick Pilon's He Would be a Soldier."' " Stop!" cried Athothis. " Time flies, and I weary of your glib references. Yet, methinks you have not named a single medical portrait painter nor sculptor whose fame will be handed down to posterity. With all their pro-