A British Navel surgeon visits an American encampment and notes that the Americans are "a drunken, canting, lying, praying, hypocritical rabble without order."Which really ought to give us hope, if you think about it.
Monday, May 26, 2008
This Day in History: May 26
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"Which really ought to give us hope, if you think about it."
David, you made my morning! Of course I about choked when I read it. You really ought to give a guy some warning. I'm going to send this out on my private email list. You are the funniest American of Rumanian descent I've ever met. What a hoot, and uplifting as well.
I'm just amazed the Brits had doctors specifically to perform surgery on belly buttons!
Good catch, Nicki--and you'll note the source is a government site.
Lest you think I negligently repeated their mistake, further research shows he was from the fleet known unofficially as "The Fighting Umbilicals," the gutsiest group of tars with a stomach for fighting who cut a swath from the Fallopians to the Uterines, and who tried their utmost to restore the infant Colonies back into the protective womb of the Mother Country...
Did it work? Did anybody buy that?
Hook, line, and sinker, David!
The degree of specialization in 18th Century British medicine is impressive!
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