Dedicated to Dr John Lettsom, who was known to sign his prescriptions, 'I. Lettsom':

Whenever patients come to I,
I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em;
If after that they choose to die,
What's that to me! — I letts 'em.


Poetical Works (1823)

Thomas Erskine Quotes

Whenever patients come to I, I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em; If after that they choose to die, What's that to me! — I letts 'em.

Whenever patients come to I, I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em; If after that they choose to die, What's that to me! — I letts 'em.

Whenever patients come to I, I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em; If after that they choose to die, What's that to me! — I letts 'em.

Whenever patients come to I, I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em; If after that they choose to die, What's that to me! — I letts 'em.