The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

LONDON, November 19.

ANECDOTE of Dr. GALL. The Doctor having an apprentice, whom he employed chiefly in domestic concerns, instead of dispensing physic, the boy remonstrated with his master, and bluntly insisted on being instructed in the secrets of the profession. The Doctor complied, and told him he should go with him that afternoon to a patient in a very dangerous situation, where he might have an opportunity to see his grand method of discovering the diagnostics of a disease. The Doctor, with the apprentice, entered the room of the patient almost exhausted. After feeling the pulse, &c. he flew into a rage, and accused the nurse with having given the sick man eggs, which he pronounced fatal to his disorder, and hurried away to send, as he said, a specific antidote. The apprentice took this opportunity to interrogate the Doctor: Pray, Sir, how do you know the nurse has given the man eggs?--for that must be a great secret.--Why, Jack, says the Doctor, because I saw the egg shells under the bed. Then the apprentice was immediately sent off for the antidote, but arrived too late, as the patient was dead. On this information the Doctor expressed great astonishment: to relieve which, the apprentice, with great eagerness and simplicity, assured his master, that during their absence the patient had eaten a HORSE. Impossible! said the Doctor. True, by G--d, replied the boy, for I saw the bridle and saddle under the bed.