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Le Médecin et la garde malade, 1840. 'Comment va le malade? Hèlas Monsieur, il est mort ce matin à six heures! Ah! il est mort le gaillard! Il n'a donc pas pris ma potion! - Si Monsieur - Il en a donc trop pris? - Non Monsieur - C'est qu'il n'en a pas assez pris'. The Doctor and the sick nurse. Doctor: 'How is the patient?' Nurse: 'Alas sir, he died this morning at six o'clock!' Doctor: 'Ah! The fellow is dead! So he didn't take my potion!' Nurse: 'Yes he did Sir'. Doctor: 'So he took too much?' Nurse: 'No sir'. Doctor: 'Ah then it's because he didn't take enough'. Series: Emotions parisiennes; Periodical: Le Charivari, 6 July 1840.