Clio Grub at Brighton
Anon
Genre: | Extract, Poetry, Drollery |
Publications extracted: | New Monthly Magazine |
Subjects: | Medical Treatment, Hydropathy, Medical Practitioners, Race |
The eponymous hero is a hack writer suffering from rheumatism, who goes to Brighton for his health. He is treated at the Turkish baths, but is only cured when, on falling down a well, he drinks a smugglers' stash of gin. |
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