Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient
APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider
BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.