A little learning is a dangerous thing...

Abstract

A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing. ? The smart young lady who wrote a note to the doctor asking him to visit her brother, and bring his urethra with him, has been discounted by a well-informed medical student of Indianapolis, who was recently asked by his sweetheart to examine her throat for some slight ailment. Being anxious to exhibit his embryonic medical talents to his fair inamorata, he called for a spoon, dexterously depressed her tongue, gazed knowingly into the yawning chasm thus brought into view, and then, with a look of profound wisdom, informed her that her vulva was greatly elongated.?Journal of Cutaneous and Venereal Diseases, March 1886.