Punch,  23 (1852), 218.

A Countryman at Cambridge

Anon

Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Adulteration, Chemistry


    Insists that beer at the University of Cambridge is 'very good physic and bark. / Not to name a French chemist's unguarded remark', and that it abounds with substances that neither a chemist nor druggist can 'compound'.



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