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THE ROENTGENOLOGIST (TO DR. A.B. SMITH), by                    
First Line: The roentgenologist has wondrous powers
Last Line: While with invisibility he cures!
Subject(s): Radiology


The roentgenologist has wondrous powers;
A thaumaturgist to the invalid,
From him no secrets of the bones are hid;
He looks directly where the fracture cowers.
Where pathologic plants bear evil flowers
Or where, not active now, they lately did,
He sees, and pours the healing ray amid
Their ravages. (The lurking Reaper lowers.)
He seems more like a god than other men
Because he sees what only God has seen;
And also that the occult (to his ken
Discovered by his marvellous machine)
He treats with sympathy, and long endures,
While with invisibility he cures!





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