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Motif

Veterinarian becomes doctor. When he killed animals he had to pay for them; but he did not have to pay for killing people.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Repartee concerning doctors and patients. · view the constellation · filed as J1438

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Filed under Repartee concerning doctors and patients.

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I know not how. Sick man: "I came to a place I know not where; something happened I know not how; I am sick I know not where." Doctor: "Go to the pharmacy and buy I know not what, and eat it I know not how, and you will become well I know not when." No physician at all. A bad physician having predicted the immediate death of a patient meets him recovered. "How go things down below?" "They put you at the head of the list of bad physicians, but I maintained that you were no physician at all." "Do as I say and not as I do." Doctor forbids patient to drink wine. When patient reproves doctor for drinking wine the latter says: "Just now it is bad for you and good for me." Strenuous cure for madness. Doctor throws patients into a pit of water. Servant warns queer-looking hunter to flee before master throws him into the pit. (Cf. K2137.)

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