Punch,  28 (1855), 133.

A Grand National Picture

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, War, Charlatanry

Institutions mentioned:

Army


    Describes a picture representing 'Gulliver and the Lilliputians', which contains such ironic depicitions as 'the efficient Andrew Smith' and 'the rational Menzies', an allusion to the ineptitude of these medical practitioners in tending the Crimean wounded.



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