Notes

Carleton, pp 21, 139. "The Country Doctor" is from Rhymes of Our Planet," copyright, 1895, by Harper and Brothers; and "The Doctor's Story" is from "Farm Legends," copyright, 1875, 1887, by Harper and Brothers. These poems are published by special arrangement with the author and publishers

FIELD, pp 22, 147. The poems His Pneumogastric Nerve," and "Doctors" were written by Mr. Field while in London in 1889-90, and were published in the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS, now the CHICAGO RECORD. The original text is here given.

RILEY, p 25. The changes in the text from original in "Doc Sifers" were made by Mr. Riley especially for this collection. The poem as here given is the same as will appear in the revised edition of this author's works.

HELMUTH, p 31. "My First Patient" was originally read at the banquet of the American Institute of Homœopathy, at Pittsburg, and afterwards at a faculty dinner at the Hotel Brunswick, New York.

BRUNS, p 36. Dr. J. Dickson Bruns was a native of South Carolina, and was born in Charleston, in 1837. For many years preceeding his death, in 1883, he was a resident and a leading practitioner of New Orleans. The poem, "Morituri Salutamus," was obtained from his son, Dr. Henry Dickson Bruns of New Orleans.

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MITCHELL, p 49. Minerva Medica" was originally read at the dinner commemorative of the fiftieth year of the doctorate of D. Hayes Agnew, April 6, 1888.

KERNER, p 101. This rendering of "The Doctor's Walk" is by the Rt. Rev. J. L. Spalding and is from his volume of excellent translations, "Songs Chiefly from the German."

PARSONS, p 114. "The Good Physician" originally ap peared in THE GALAXY for November, 1862.

GARTH, p 120. "The Dispensary" is a burlesque poem in six cantos, written in defence of an edict passed by the College of Physicians, July, 1687, which required medical men to give gratuitous advice to the poor. The poem was published in 1696.

CHAUCER, p 130. "A Fourteenth Century Doctor" is from The Canterbury Tales," and is the oldest poetic description of a physician in modern English literature.

MESTON, p 142. This "Diploma" is considered one of the best of the older macaronics. It was written by William Meston, M. A., Professor of Philosophy in Marischal College, Aberdeen, about the beginning of last century, whose works are now rarely to be seen,

ARMSTRONG, p 167. "The Art of Preserving Health" was published in 1744, and attracted a considerable attention in its day. It is a kind of dictionary of domestic medicine, containing much learning, much medical and moral philosophy, but without much original power, either of poetical conception or execution; it is, however, distinguished by classical correctness and closeness of style.

HEMMETER, p 219. "Hygeia Grant Thy Blessing," is from the Cantata of "Hygeia," the music as well as the text being written by Prof. Hemmeter. This song was produced before the American Medical Association in Baltimore, in May, 1895.

DUFFIELD, p 227. "De Arte Medendi" was delivered at the Fourteenth Annual Commencement of the Detroit Medical College, March 2, 1882.

ILLUSTRATIONS. The privilege of reproducing the picture, "A Cure for the Gout" has been purchased from the Berlin Photographic Company of New York, who are the owners of the copyright. "The Anxious Moment," "A Clinic by Dr. Charcot," and "The Doctor" are used by special arrangements with William Wood and Company, New York, and are from their series of pictures for physicians' offices.

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