From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!ihnss!ihps3!stolaf!anderej Newsgroups: net.jokes Title: Medical pun Article-I.D.: stolaf.397 Posted: Wed Jun 23 01:30:18 1982 Received: Sun Jun 27 05:33:39 1982 Once upon a time, in midevil Europe, a man was making a pilgrimage. to Rome. Unfortunately, on his journy, he was caught by storms and caught a cold which severly hampered his journey. One day, when he was feeling especially tired and misserable, his body just gave out and he collapsed by the side of the road. Not long afterwards, there came a friar, who seeing that the man was a pilgrim, took pity and transported him to the local barber (who in those days was the local physician). Now the barber was finely skilled in the art of blood letting and immediately set about his task. As he prepared to bleed a bit from the sick mans ear, the man regained consciousness. Seeing a stranger standing over him with a knife in his hand, the man thought he was beining attacked by robbers and immediately attempted to leave. Unfortunately, in the struggle, the barber cut the mans throat and he bled to death. Now this brings me to the moral of the story: Never fight the hand that bleeds you.