Medical History Mugs

Florence Nightingale

"You've omitted your previous patient experience and recommendations from two other doctors."

Medical practicioner speaking to his apprentice

Man with a wooden leg asking to be measured for a pair of boots

"What?"

'Mark my words! If we physicians allow the establishment of a nursing profession...'

"I just don't know - Hipppocrates says one thing, Galen says another thing, and Vesalius says something entirely different."

Computer in medical museum as a prosthetic

"I'd thought I'd lost my arm when I was hit in battle. It's amazing what they can do with reconstructive surgery these days."

"Ralph is proud of his urinal collection."

"What's that mark on your arm, Mama?"

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

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

'Feed a cold, starve the plague.'

'Hey, this guy's been operated on before!'

Cures for Ye Plague

Edward Jenner

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

'Medical science is this close to finding a cure for the common evil vapors.'

Early Blood Draw

John Snow

Asylum; May contain patients with mental problems.

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

Covid Vaccines

An early medical case ripe for a malpractice lawsuit.

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

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

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

Consultation of Physicians.

Antique Ailments

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

Early Anaesthesia

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

"They just don't make 'em like Doc Malone anymore!"

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