Punch,  2 (1842), [10].

Remarks

Anon

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Education, Hospitals, Surgery


    Seasonal observations of the London medical scene. For example, notes that 'hospital surgeons hunt up the lame and halt, to make a grand operating field-day for the commencement of the season', and that pawnbrokers 'display tempting dissecting-cases at seven and sixpence'.



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