Punch,  37 (1859), 199.

To Correspondents

Anon

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Mathematics, Medical Treatment, Electricity, Physiology


    Gives 'A Thoughtful Glazier' some absurdly complex mathematical formula for establishing the cost of putty, and responds to an 'Ode Written on a Dissecting Room Table', and 'Lines on Galvanising a Deceased Donkey' penned by 'Horrescus'. Provides a 'specimen' of the latter, which describes how the donkey came back to life after treatment by galvanism.



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