Comic Annual,  1 (1830), 111–12.

A Good Direction

[Thomas Hood]

Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Nutrition, Authorship, Medical Treatment, Alchemy


    Refers to a fictional 'surgeon of great note—named Aberfeldie. / A very famous Author upon Diet, / Who, better starr'd than Alchemists of old, / By dint of turning mercury into gold, / Had settled at his country-house in quiet' (111).



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