Re: Interesting Anecdotes from the Past
The gentleman’s dog
Dr. Meyersbach obtained his diploma in medicine about this time (about 1624 AD) for a few shillings, and without the rudiments of an education, made a splendid living out of the credulity even of the most learned and fashionable classes of English society, and arrived at the height of honor and distinction.
The reader must admit that diplomas were cheap honors, when one was granted to a dog! A young English gentleman, for the sport of the thing, paid the price of a medical diploma soon after Dr. Meyersbach’s was granted, and had it duly recorded in the archives of the college (Erfurth) as having been awarded to Anglicus Ponto.
“And who was Anglicus Ponto?”
“None other than the gentleman’s dog—a fine mastiff.”
But this question was not asked till too late to prevent the joke. It had the good effect, however, to raise at once the price of degrees.
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