telling anecdote about physicians

Moliere, while travelling in Auvergne, became unwell, and his
attendants proposed to send for a celebrated city physician. "No! no!"
said Moliere. "he is too eminent; call the village surgeon; he will not
have the confidence enough to kill me."

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Taken from:

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC15865124&id=Kw3BI003ZU0C&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=corpulence&as_brr=1#PPA15,M1

The Sociable Story-teller: Being a Selection of New Anecdotes, Humerous
Tales, Amusing Stories...

Page 15.

Written in 1846.

TC

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