His work was ever the best, and still is,
Because of this note on the Tendo Achillis.
This Helenus was a man well bred,
He was _up_ in Electricity,
Fortification, Theology,
aesthetics and Pugilicity;
Celsus and Gregory he'd read;
Knew every "dodge" of _glove and fist;_
Was a capital curate, (I think I've said)
And Transcendental Anatomist:
_Well up_ in Materia Medica,
_Right up_ in Toxicology,
And Medical Jurisprudence, that sell!
And the _dead sell_ Physiology:
Knew what and how much of any potation
Would get him through any examination:
With credit not small, had passed the Hall
And the College----and they couldn't _pluck_ him at all.
He'd written on Rail-roads, delivered a lecture
Upon the Electric Telegraph,
Had played at single-stick with Hector,
And written a paper on half-and-half.
With those and other works of note
He was not at all a "_people's man_,"
Though public, for the works he wrote
Were not that sort the people can
Admire or read; they were Mathematic
The most part, some were Hydrostatic;
But Algebraic, in the main,
And full of a, b, c, and n--
And other letters which perplex--
The last was full of double x!
In fact, such stuff as one may easily
Imagine, didn't go down greasily,
Nor calculated to produce
Such heat as "cooks the public goose,"
And does it of so brown a hue
Men wonder while they relish too.
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