That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 13, 2024

Marie Whitman would do anything get out of the asylum, even if it meant pretending to pass out for a bunch of medical students.

/// French neurologist, Doctor Charcot,

is shown here putting on a big show.

Marie Wittman’s the “star.”

Her behavior’s bizarre;

she’s hysterical. (Charcot says so.)

“Now that she deeply under my spell, I will ask that you gentlemen refrain from any lewd comments. I will now have her quack like a duck.”

As you can see my new drug – which I have named Heroin – is not only an effective painkiller, but a wonderful sleep aid as well. Order yours today, and get some for the wife, for when she monthly ‘moods’.

Doctor Charcot was brilliant in the field of medicine, but as a teacher, he was so boring he even put the subject to sleep.

They calls me Doctor Swoon.

In the middle of giving a speech/

Demanding the Senate impeach/

She abruptly passed out/

Engendering doubt/

And concern that she’d be out of reach.///

There are those who contend her defeat/

And the ultimate loss of her seat/

Was a plot by her foes.

But wiser heads knows/

She’s allergic to Shredded Wheat.

See, gentlemen? For a meager 200 francs a month subscription to my Incels-pickub Club I can teach you all how to do this in 20 lessons. The fee even includes a lifelong 30 percent discount with Epstein and Creep lawyers firm.

“Okay, potion for headaches doesn’t actually work. But, now I’m going to market it as a fast acting sleeping aid”!

…and in conclusion gentlemen, a true sign that a date is going badly is when she suddenly plays dead.

In 1887 Dr. Charcot first introduced “Roofies” to the French.

The Brando method of seducing a woman. “First you have to get their attention.”

“Bring me the butter!”

“I’m sorry for her hysterics. As you can see, it’s always a good idea to have a syringe of sedative on hand at all times… especially when showing the bill.”

Typical patriarchal male, finishing a woman’s sentences for her. Let her finish her own when she wakes back up.

/sarcasm

So here’s today’s medical fact to bestow

As demonstrated by Professor Chacot

To discern Opisthotonus

From mere Pleurothotonus

Will be on the test for you to know.

Some pretty fascinating history here, both art history and medical history. Good article at “A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière” in Wikipedia. The artist worked in some pretty cool doubling of art and life.

It would be better to say “she has narcolepsy” than “she is a narcoleptic.”

Hey! Me to………………zzzzzzzzzzzzz

“Gentlemen, I call it the ‘Inflatable Sex Doll.’ This one, I’m sorry to say, seems to have sprung a leak somewhere.”

“Lean forward, Gents, if you want a good view of the wardrobe malfunction…”

Today’s lecture at the Mad Scientist Symposium: How to properly support the spine of the damsel you’ve kidnapped for your diabolical experiments, when she inevitably faints.

“Thus we demonstrate that exposing so much as one’s shoulder, even indoors, can have serious debilitating effect. I beg you all, under no circumstances should you ever remove your jackets!”

In the Early Days of Sex Research, Doctors were Forbidden by Law from Studying Live Subjects.

“As you see, the mere thought of women’s suffrage puts the poor dears into a faint. Can you imagine if they were ever expected actually to vote?!?”

Watch that left hand, buster.

Alfred Hitchcock directing a from Mary Poppins….until Walt Disney fired him…..

She passed out over the idea of being the only woman in a room full of men.

A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:1887 oil on canvas paintings in France" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string clinique, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this huge painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3269 (February 13, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment and reply pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here, the October 13, 2021, strip being the prior.

“A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière,” 1887

All Right…who had the bean burrito for lunch?

Well certainly was a success. Now, if you will accompany me outside, we shall see if my halitosis truly can knock a buzzard off a “honey wagon” at 50 meters.

Before the space race was a catalyst for miniaturization, some ventriloquist dummies were life size.

Tomorrow:

when you’ve given an icy hummer/

To a chubby and affable drummer/

If he comes in your tub/

Does he get a free scrub/

Or does bathing him wait until Summer ?