Dr. Abernethy, the famous Scotch surgeon, was a man of few words, but he once met his match - in a woman. She called at his office in Edinburgh, one day, with a hand badly inflamed and swollen. The following dialogue, opened by the doctor, took place.
"Burn?"
"Bruise."
"Poultice."
The next day the woman called, and the dialogue was as follows:
