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Posted By: Jim Dixon
23-Oct-21 - 06:05 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: One of His Legs is Longer than It ...
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: One of His Legs is Longer than It ...
From The Dental Digest, Vol. 8, No. 7 (Chicago: J. N. Crouse, DDS, July, 1902) in a section called “News Summary,” page 624:

A STAY OF PROCEEDINGS. — A lady physician in Denver recently entered proceedings against the surgeon who set her broken leg, because one limb was shorter than the other. A feature of the court proceedings is described by a local “poet," in the following lines:

"Order in the court! Of proceedings grant a stay,
A picture must be taken and taken right away.”
The lady flushed a rosy red, the jury all turned quick,
And the kodak man he kodaked 'ere any one could think.

The case it was a lengthy one, and waxed an awful lore;
The lady took her shoe off and stood upon the floor,
To show the jury plainly so that every one could see
That one leg was much shorter than it really ought to be.

The lady had been X-rayed a time or two before.
The doctors said it wouldn't do, they must be showed some more,
And then she shed her stockings, and fainted dead away
When the fiend pressed the button on his kodak yesterday.

The doctors all enjoyed it; the judge and jury smiled,
The lady may be pardoned if her looks were fierce and wild;
And doctors, judge and jury hummed an ancient memory—
"One of his legs was longer than it really ought to be.”

—Med. Standard.