Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Music, Disease

    Responding to the fact that 'our celebrated vocalists are in the habit of not singing when advertised, almost as often as they do sing when announced', relishes the idea of a musical work 'on the pathology of the operatic singer, with an exposition' of the diseases suffered by singers. Notes that these diseases include 'Bronchitis Derbyitis' and 'Influenza Ascotica'.