Punch,  32 (1857), 47.

A Good Spec

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Disease, Light, Technology


    Discusses a report in Notes and Queries revealing the number of Frenchmen exempted from military service on the grounds of myopia. Suggests that England manufactures and exports a large number of spectacles to France.



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