Punch,  15 (1848), 178.

Useful, but Decidedly not Ornamental

Anon

Genre:

Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Anaesthesia, Cruelty


    Ridicules the use of fly-paper in London and suggests that flies be 'killed, without pain, by Chloroform, or be exterminated wholesale by some ethereal process'.



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