鈥淪ince calomel鈥檚 become their boast,/ How many patients have they lost?/ How many thousands they make ill,/ Of poison with their calomel?鈥 So ran a little verse written in 1825 by an unknown poet...
The marble and granite statue in the Boston Common depicts a physician in medieval clothing holding a cloth next to the face of a man who seems to have passed out. An inscription on the base of the...