Foolish doctor performs useless operation — Mythoi

Motif

Foolish doctor performs useless operation.

Humor. · Humor of social classes. · Humor dealing with professions. · Jokes on scholars. · view the constellation · filed as X372.4

Within the index

Filed under Jokes on doctors.

1 finer motif beneath it

Man with cheeks stuffed with food operated on to remove swellings

Filed beside it

Doctor cures palpitation of heart: patient stops breathing Head cut off to cure snakebite Eyedrops prescribed for stomach ache so that patient can see what he eats. [Inadvertant duplication of J1603.] Doctor called to attend sick man immediately gives orders for the funeral

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