 | Roy Porter - Death - 2001 - 340 pages
...numbers fell. While others meanly ask'd whole months to slay I oft dispatch'd the patient in a day:... Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, And Death in ambush lay in every pill... 3I The apothecaries, of course, gratefully acknowledged his services: ... Each word, Sir, you impart... | |
 | 1830 - 402 pages
...patient in a day ; * See the letters of these gentlemen in the Medical and Physical Journal for 1823. With pen in hand, I push'd to that degree, I scarce...claim, Though credit suffers, the reward's the same. What though the art of healing we pretend, He that designs it least is most a friend. Into the right... | |
 | American literature - 1905 - 1102 pages
...fell; Whilst others merely asked whole months to slay, 1 oft dispatcli'd the patient in a day. . . . Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, And death in ambush lay in every pill. Radcliffe had quarrelled with Gibbons and called him an " old Nurse " when they were young men together... | |
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I scarce had left a wretch to give a fee. Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, And death in ambush lay in every pill : For save or slay, this privilege we claim, Though credit suffers, the reward's the same. 
