Un mal cuisant, l a smarting pain

1. 9. Mon Esculape. ' Le célèbre docteur Dubois, à qui l'auteur de ces chansons ne peut témoigner trop de reconnaissance, et en qui les qualités du cœur égalent la science et l'étonnante habileté.' (Note by Béranger.)

Dr. Dubois was the surgeon of the hospital. It appears from a letter written at this time that the physician, Dr. Duméril, regarded Béranger rather as a ' malade imaginaire,' although the latter had a distressing cough. It was Dr. Dubois who prescribed a treatment for him, which Béranger partly describes, and from which it would appear that he was ' run

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down,' and chiefly in need of a thorough rest and of a month of careful dieting.

a renversé mon verre, has forbidden me my wine.