...to read it until he was under the turf, or out of practice : " When people's ill, they comes to I, I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em ; Sometimes they live, sometimes they die ; What's that to I ? I. Letsome " (lets 'em). The best of these professional adieux is, however, that on a certain Mrs....

...for the sake of the joke than with a due regard to truth : — " When people's ill, they come to I ; I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em ; Sometimes they live, sometimes they die ; What's that to me ? I Letsome " (lef s 'em). This reminds us of an anecdote concerning two sharp limbs of the law, who dwelt...

...violent measures which were universally believed in during the last century. He used to say of himself, "When patients sick to me apply, I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em; Then — if they choose to die, What's that to me — I lets "em." — (I. Lettsom.) But his prescriptions...

...himself, but I cannot assert it was ever cut upon his tombstone — i " When people's ill, they come to I, I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em ; Sometimes they live, sometimes they die — What's that to I— And he signed his name — I. LETTSOM." But as I stated at the outset, and as I must repeat at...

...Heberden, or \Villis. Anon. CCLXXII. ON DR. LETTSOM, BY HIMSELF. When people's ill, they comes to I, I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em ; Sometimes they live, sometimes they die. What's that to I ? I lets 'em. John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815). CCLXXIII. SENT TO A PATIENT, WITH THE PRESENT OF...

...carr'd her away." On Dr. Letsom, by Himself, for his Tombstone. " When people's ill, they comes to I, I physics, bleeds, and sweats "em ; Sometimes they live, sometimes they die ; What's that to I ? I, Letsome (let's 'em)." On the Parson of Parish, in • In the Churchyard of Chumleigh, Devon....

...describing his own style of practice : AA * When folks are sick they come to me, I physics. Meeds, and sweats 'em ; Sometimes they live, sometimes they die; What's that to me? I. Lettsnm.' This certainly was the kill or cure system. Doctors have fared badly at the hands of epitaphmongers....

...It all may be summed up in the little poem by John C. Letsom : "When people's ill, they come to I, I physics, bleeds and sweats 'em ; Sometimes they live, sometimes they die, What's that to I? I lets 'em. For many centuries medicine was an individual art. It may be said that it was an individual...

...physician, was bold in his treatment of disease, and a heroic bleeder. He used to say of himself : — " When patients sick to me apply, I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em Then — if they choose to die, What's that to me— I lets 'em." The wig also constituted an essential...

...lasting farewell ! H. SAVILE CLARKE. On Dr. Lettsom, by Himself WHEN people 's ill, they comes to I, I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em ; Sometimes they live, sometimes they die. What 's that to I ? I lets 'em. — JOHN COAKLEY LETTSOM. The Village Doctor SEE him still, as erst...