ABSTRACT
Contributed by Alan Frank after an interview on BBC Radio London about Mould’s Medical Anecdotes. It relates to a story told to keep students awake during lectures in Cambridge.
A woman patient told the eminent physician Dr Cunningham, author of the much-used manuals of dissection, that she had been given a digitalis examination by another doctor. ‘I assume that he wore foxgloves, was Dr Cunningham’s retort.
