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The Laboratorium

And Most of the Jokes are True

February 10, 2008 at 10:54 AM

From The Bay State Monthly (Nov. 1885):

Among the callings acknowledged to be not only useful, but indispensable to society, there is no one, except the medical, which has been oftener the butt of vulgar ridicule and abuse than the legal. “Lawyers and doctors,” says a writer on Wit and Humor in the British Quarterly Review, “are the chief objects of ridicule in the jest-books of all ages.”