Medical History Fan Prints

Old- Fashioned Dental Surgery

'The good news is that it's not your fault.'

"We're doing everything we can to make him comfortable, short of dressing up as male doctors."

Cures for Ye Plague

PHARMACY, 'Tell Hippocrates to write his prescriptions in Greek -- I can't read Babylonian!'

'Feed a cold, starve the plague.'

Edward Jenner

"This patient must be really rich! He brought back the most extravagant illnesses from exotic holiday spots."

"You're sure it's a birthmark?"

"Trepanning for gold"

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

Early Blood Draw

"We'd like to start out being very involved with you but eventually be drawn away to much more interesting cases down the hall."

John Snow

"Milton finally found a doctor he can trust - one who still believes in the healing power of money."

Vaccine race

"I'm afraid the shark got your arms and legs. It's probably not a good time, but your brother's here. He needs a kidney."

An early medical case ripe for a malpractice lawsuit.

Consultation of Physicians.

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

Hospital Gift Shop

"We use leeches on the test subjects and slugs on the control group."

"So why is it that we only get to see you whenever you need a gruesome amputation?"

'Well you can tell Dr. Zimler that you don't have Dalnik's syndrome, and, in fact, I think you have Zimler's syndrome.'

'In this practice we like to have the best of the old with the best of the new.'

Antique Ailments

"Sorry Mr. Parkinson, but I've left some rubber gloves inside you. I need to open you up to retrieve them."

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

"We'll be performing the operation using original instruments."

Florence Nightingale

Early Anaesthesia