Bailey Ballads
[Thomas Hood]
Genre: | Introduction, Spoof; Ballad, Drollery |
Subjects: | Disability, Medical Treatment |
At the Old Bailey, a large number of deaf men 'objected the hardness of their hearing criminal cases'. 'The Publishers of "Curtis on the Ear" and "Wright on the Ear"—(two popular surgical works, though rather suggestive of Pugilism)—ought to have stentorian agents in that Court'. (41) | |
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