Punch,  18 (1850), 39.

Frightful Case of Stitch in the Side

Anon

Genre:

Reportage, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Charlatanry


    Reports that following an attack of 'stitch in the side' suffered by the 'Marquess of Four-hundred-thousand', 'medical assistance was summoned' and the 'intelligence of the physician–intelligence, it must be confessed, extra-professional' discovered that the cause lay in the patient's coat.



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