The Last Line is the Kicker

From the Perth Amboy Evening News of December 6, 1911 comes a story that makes you wonder... hell, it just makes you wonder.

A delightful diddy....

I am currently teaching my first class about American quackery. It's a seminar-style history course for first-year students. I've been soaking in ye olde quackeries for months now. I was prepping for a discussion of homeopathy's origins, and I thought I would peruse the Library of Congress' Chronicling America site for mentions of it, to give a sense of how it was treated. I came across a funny little poem on the front page of the Lewistown Gazette on November 10th, 1849:

So far, the students would understand "allopathy" and "Thomsopathy." I'm not going to show them this until... I'm totally going to turn this into a quiz. "Tell me which school of medicine is being described...." I have a fun job. 

RJB