Big Medicine
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WHIM-WHAM
[Medicine is just emerging from the Stage of witchcraft and divination, and psychiatry is not lagging far behind . . ."’-Commander V. H. Hegesson, a specialist on the staff of a United States naval hospital, speaking in Auckland on industrial psychiatry.] HOPE that Doctors never quite Forget their ancient Skill In Witchcraft and the magic Charm, To check the Powers of III: It’s often Faith that works the Cure, Not What’s inside the Pill, A PPROACHING the ConsultingRoom, Although I keep My Head, My Stomach can’t repress the Thrill Of superstitious Dread. I leave, submissive to the Spell Of What the Doctor said. "T'HE meanest’ Symbols of the Trade Acquire a magic AirThe Bell with "Ring and Enter, Please,’’ The Scents that hover There, The Illustrated London News \ Spreadeagled on a Chair. H, Doctors, never quite forswear The gentle Sorceries Which bolster up our Confidence And keep us at our EaseRemembering your Patients still Are three-Parts Savages! a -----
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 203, 14 May 1943, Page 2
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160Big Medicine New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 203, 14 May 1943, Page 2
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