Celebrated medical man and holiday musings
A quirky sequence notes Sir John Franklin as history’s most celebrated medical figure, a Christmas wish for a Chicago birth, Carl Schurz heading to Indian country, and a boast about outrunning a steer followed by a cryptic line about sipping mento Rad.
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