Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny From: susie_cleland@hotmail.com (Susie Cleland) Subject: How observant is *your* doctor? Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 19:30:00 PST URL: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/99/Dec/chauvinism.html

One of the classic textbooks in medicine is "Obstetrics," by Whitridge Williams. There is a little editorial comment buried in the index. The entry reads,

Chauvinism, male, variable amounts, [pages] 1-923

Apparently they never noticed, because the next edition of the text has a similar entry, taking into account the fact that textbooks almost always get bigger rather than smaller,

Chauvinism, male, voluminous amounts, [pages] 1-1102

This really makes me want to hit the local med school library and see if there's a seventeenth edition out yet...