Punch,  34 (1858), 153–54.

The Domestic Opera

Anon

Genre:

Introduction, Drollery; Song, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Medical Treatment, Quackery, Human Development


    Features a song by a family doctor, who examines a child's tongue, and thinks the 'world is but a gilded Pill, / The breeze of fame a sweetened draught'. He adds that when the pills fail you, 'You'll know what hollow spells you've quaffed', and urges the child to call on him whenever 'darkest visions near thee blend'. (154)



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