Medical Mishaps
Hunt's Howlers Encored—Health Howlers and Medical Mishaps
This page contains a selection of howlers relating to health and medicine from Cecil Hunt's classic book of Howlers Encored, published in 1931. The selected extracts, edited and rearranged, are reproduced for readers in countries where Howlers Encored is in the public domain, which includes Australia. For other countries, please check your local copyright laws.
The best way to preserve teeth is to put them in water overnight.
Essay on breathing: Breath is made of air. We breathe with our lungs, our livers and our kidneys. If it wasn't for our breath we should die when we slept. Boys that stay in a room all day should not breathe. They should wait until they get out doors. Boys in a room make carbonicide. Carbonicide is more poisonous than mad dogs. A heap of soldiers was in a black hole in India and carbonicide got in that black hole and killed nearly all of them.
An incubator is used to burn rubbish.
A doctor uses a cynical thermometer.
The boy who had fever shimmered.
Dilemma usually accompanies pneumonia, and the unfortunate patient can hardly be said to be in his right mind.
In winter when it is very cold people have to wear scarves and woollen things and muffins.
After the accident he became dangerously hilarious.
The white Forecastles in the blood kill Bacteria.
The heart is a rubber pump situated under the left armpit.
A goitre is a kind of banjo.
The stomach is a growing room. It grows big as a man grows bigger. When it is very big it is called a belly.
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