Punch,  28 (1855), 201.

The Last Stage of Puffing

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Quackery


    Shows how extracts from William Shakespeare's plays—including Macbeth's speech to the physician in the fifth act of Macbeth, and a speech in the third act of King John—might be used to sell quack medicines.



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