Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Sanitation, Public Health, Reading, Periodicals

    Demands that the 'thinking, the reading public, be protected as well as the eating one' from adulterated products, and following the Lancet's Analytical Sanitary Commission, reports Punch's 'scientific analysis' of adulterated literature. 'The Common Penny Titillator', for example, was found to contain 'much lead' and 'granules of old jokes, in a state of decomposition'.