30 motifs match “patient”  ·  back to the chapters

• Patient fed salt: animal comes out for water. The patient is fed salt or heavily salted food and allowed no water for several days. He then stands with mouth open before a supply of fresh water, often a running brook. The thirsty animal emerges to get fresh water. B784.2.1
• Patient sits before tempting meal without eating; animal emerges. B784.2.2
• Frog is enticed from patient's mouth by offering it a piece of cheese. B784.2.3
• Physician removes animal from stomach of patient. B784.2.4
• Cure by passing patient through cleft of tree (other loop). (Cf. F950.3.) D2161.4.5
• Cure by putting lock of patient's hair in hole of post or tree, then plugging hole with wood. D2161.4.18
• Wolf tries in vain to be doctor. Only increases patient's suffering. J512.5
• Peacock spends so much time preening for coronation that birds become impatient and make the owl king instead. J515
• Doctor gives advice after patient dies. Scorned for lack of foresight. J756.1
• Physician removes pea from patient's ear. Knocks him down and pea rolls out. J1115.2.2
• Repartee concerning doctors and patients. J1430
• 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." J1432
• "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." J1433
• 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.) J1434
• Imitation of diagnosis by observation: ass's flesh. A doctor tells his patient that he has eaten too much chicken, and this the patient confesses. The doctor's son wants to know how the diagnosis was made. The doctor says that as he rode up he observed chicken feathers and made his conclusions. The son imitates. He sees an ass's saddle. Diagnosis: you have eaten too much ass's flesh. J2412.4
• "Quieting the patient." Fool does so by killing. J2489.5
• Healer to take payment in satisfaction at patient's recovery. K233.6
• Sham doctor kills his patients. K824
• False hair-restorer injures patient. K1013.5
• Physician treating man's eye covers his one good eye. Entertains his patient's mistress. K1516.1.1
• Sham cure by pretended extracting of object from patient's body. K1871.2
• Patients frightened from hospital by harsh treatment. K1955.1.2
• Man captured by pirates is maimed, crippled, blinded. He is patient through it all. Finally he is elected ruler by his dead master's subjects. N251.1
• Patient laughs so at foolish diagnosis of sham physician that his abscess breaks and he gets well. She has been told to examine the floor around the patient's bed for signs of what he has been eating. She finds the patient surrounded with pillows: he has eaten too many pillows. N641
• Patient laughs at monkey and cures himself. Monkey takes medicine and cuts capers as result. N641.1
• Stinging of buttocks as cure for cough. Patient applies stinging medicine and makes himself sore. He represses his cough to keep from hurting his hindquarters and is finally cured. N643
• "Skillful" physician compelled to help carry away the bier of his dead patient. P424.3.1
• Beautiful woman married to hideous man: he is thankful, she patient. She says that they have thus both gained paradise. T268
• Doctor cures palpitation of heart: patient stops breathing. X372.1
• Eyedrops prescribed for stomach ache so that patient can see what he eats. [Inadvertant duplication of J1603.] X372.3