Historical Medicine Fan Gifts

"Trepanning for gold"

'Like I said - It's non invasive surgery.'

Leeches, lucky charms, rat catching. The secretary of health is in.

Early Blood Draw

J. Greeble, MD: Practice limited to simple, straightforward, old-fashioned diseases.

"It might be time to put you on a stronger anti-inflammatory."

An early medical case ripe for a malpractice lawsuit.

"Take two aspirin and email me in the morning."

Hospital Gift Shop

'Gesundheit! You must have an uncommon cold.'

Antique Ailments

"Oh, here's the problem. He's got a doohickey on his thingamabob."

'He says he makes house calls, and he'll be over as soon as he gets his horse back from the blacksmith.'

"How come we don't start plagues any more? Are we one of those boring couples?"

"Well it's not so much an ITCH, more a slight irritation, what could it be?"

"Take one three times a day after meals."

Old- Fashioned Dental Surgery

Be In Need of Transplant Organs?

"I don't feel so good, Tia Carmen."

How to Keep the Doctors Guessing

'Leeches, We're trying more traditional methods.'

The Aestetico-Neuralgicon- An Aid to Delivery of Inhaled Medicines

'Hello Mr. Perkins! Megan the giant leech and I are going to draw some of your blood now!'

Hyacinthe Vincent

"Congratulations, Mr. Roth. You are now officially a syndrome."

'You know how some people are living on borrowed time? I think one of them borrowed it from you.'

Milestone in Medicine: 'Brand new high technology, Lampwick, I'm going to bleed you!'

'Thing sure have changed. Fifty years ago doctors made house calls.'

'He had a disease named after him.'

'The hormone therapy is still in its primitive stages.'

Two men discussing hanging