Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Education, Dissection, Amusement, Surgery

    Seasonal 'Directions to Medical Students' includes such advice as purchasing fireworks 'for a grand pyrotechnic fete in the dissecting-room during the lecture upon the Practice of Physic' and putting a 'sixpenny maroon' firework in the body of the anatomical subject being dissected by 'a new man' against whom one bears a grudge.