Punch,  27 (1854), 71.

Physic for the Enemy

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Military Technology, War, Medical Treatment, Narcotics


    Responding to news that 'the Government has been engaged in trying antinomial balls' for military use, concludes that this is 'calculated to give all within the sphere of [the ball's] destruction a regular sickener [a reference to the poisonous nature of antimony]'.



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