A New Style of Puffing
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Quackery, Medical Treatment, Commerce |
Discusses the advertisement of a 'Preston Quack' for cough lozenges that use the powers of 'concentrated sea air'. Thinks the advertiser must consider the public to be 'Gulls' to 'swallow this' and that those who do will probably suffer from 'sea-sickness'. | |
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