A Royal Victoria Hospital Alphabet — 1930

A is for Andy of cystoscope fame: in far Minnesota they've heard of his name. B is for Bertie the Royal's best-dressed man: as a teacher of medicine excel him who can. C is for Calvert who'll debate half the night until he is sure he has diagnosed right. D is for Diana how weary her moan she wonders if Calvert will ever go home. E is the Extern, Bill Hamilton's pride: no wily Mmnchausen takes him for a ride. F is for Fraser who keeps Andy right: he never at the cherry takes more than one bite. G George McFadden, unruffled, polite: he walks to the Royal when you call him at night. H is for Houston, Sir Thomas the knight, who wars with bacilli from dusk to daylight. I is for Irwin, that is S.T. or Sam, a popular surgeon, a likeable man. J is John Morrow, the senior physician: on soda and gentian he's built his position. K Tommy Kirk, students gather to hear him proclaiming the virtues of normal horse serum. L is for Lowry, the women's professor, balloonist and tenter and father confessor. M is for Malcolm, the elegant Harry, so eager to work, so willing to tarry. N for the Nurses Miss Mussen and all: without them the whole place would crumble and fall. O is the Ophthalmological cast: James Craig, Henry Hanna, Fred Jefferson last. P Percy Crymble, once Symington's student, an applied anatomical surgeon most prudent. Q QRST waves are hard to explain could it be their inventor was Jack Mcllwaine?. R John Charles Rankin who worked with X-rays not long after R6entgen discovered their ways. S is for Stevenson skilled in dissection: at cholecystectomy he is perfection. T for the Turk, physician and wit: he knows all the causes of coughing and spit.