Punch,  21 (1851), 81.

The Song of the Pump

Anon

Genre:

Song, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Disease


    A song allegedly sung at a recent 'Great Teetotal Demonstration', notes the 'delusion [...] That punch cures gout, cholic, and phthistic [...] Or in any way answers as physic!'.



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