NOT HIS JOB.
Tho "common people" got many _ chuckle out of tho old typo ' Chinese scholar.
Doctors were formerly divided into two schools,, tho practitioners of internal acd of external medicine. On one occasion a, general was wounded with an arrow on. the field of battle, and hastily summoned tho first physician available to remove the arrow. He quickly cut it off oven with tho flesh, and then made his partifig bow. "Hero," roared the general, "whft do you mean by leaving before you hava finished looking .after my wound?" "I am a practitioner of external medicine, your Excellency," was the reply. "I have done all that is within mj proviuco, and you must now call in a. doctoj of the inside school to complete the job.'
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 40, 16 August 1919, Page 10
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127NOT HIS JOB. Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 40, 16 August 1919, Page 10
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