Chicken Soup and Other Medical Matters [Paperback]

Sidney Harris (Author)

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• Paperback: 101 pages
• Publisher: William Kaufmann (August 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0913232742
• ISBN-13: 978-0913232743
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,806,124 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A shot of medical humor, January 12, 2008

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Here are more of Harris's brilliant cartoons. This time, the theme is the medical world and all of the weirdness around it - lord knows, that gives plenty to work with.

Even though these cartoons are almost thirty years old, as of this writing, plenty in them is quite up to date. There's that doctor addressing an overweight patient, for example: "Let me put it this way: you're an addict and your grocer is a pusher." Another one is still as fresh as this morning's junk email. In it, an alchemist says to his apprentice "Gold and silver from base metals is OK, but what I'm trying to transmute is angelica root, mugwort, and tincture of marigold into an effective aphrodisiac." Or the poor blond child at dinner with his brunette family, his father saying "Son, I hear you failed genetics."

How Harris manages so much lasting humor in such fast-changing fields is beyond me, but he does it consistently. Give it a try - laughing is good for you.

-- wiredweird