Purgon

The self-same exclamation: "Monsieur Purgon!" recurs at regular beats, and, as it were, marks the TEMPO of this little scene.

Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic Henri Bergson 1900

And every time Argan rises from his seat, as though to silence Purgon, the latter disappears for a moment, being, as it were, thrust back into the wings; then, as though Impelled by

Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic Henri Bergson 1900

Purgon, "seems necessary to cook the bilious meats and the crudities they leave in the stomach." [

A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America Francis Parkman 1858

= Purgon =, one of the doctors in Molière’s comedy of _Le Malade

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853