Medieval Medical School

source unknown

Submitted by Irish

The Top 15 Things Overheard at
Medieval Medical School

 
  1. "Gesundheit! Now be sure to wipe that off his liver."
  2. "Come now Hypoglycies, how can too much sugar possibly be bad for you?"
  3. "Good knight, thy skill at treating boils is unsurpassed in all the kingdom! Thou shalt be called 'Sir Lance-a-lot'."
  4. "No, no, push that yellow stuff back in. That's pus from the good fairy!"
  5. "Now, remove the speculum from the fire and insert it thusly..."
  6. "Put down that dwarf and hand me the pliers!"
  7. "Goodwoman Thurmond, to you a son is born. 'Strom' shall he be called."
  8. "Verily, it would seem our instructor Master Bush knoweth not the name of any disease!"
  9. "Arthur, Schmarthur. What kind of insurance dost thou have?"
  10. "Headache? Take two spotted salamanders and call me in the morning."
  11. "What do you mean we're out of wild boar snout?!?"
  12. "It may seem like pointless superstition to you youngsters, but I haven't washed these hands since my first delivery 37 years ago."
  13. "They should translate these obscure medical terms into something easy, like Latin."
  14. "Don't bite it! You need to swallow it alive for it to work!"
  15. "Today class, let's open our convicted criminals to rib two."
 




[Back to the top of the page]




Valid HTML 4.01!Valid CSS!
Format, coding, scripting and graphics, except where otherwise noted,
by Giovanni dell'Arco, mka Jonathan Satcher.
If you have any questions or comments, please let me know!
On Target Online is published by and for the archers of An Tir, a Kingdom of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. It is not a publication of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc., and does not delineate SCA policies.