Genre:

Poetry

Subjects:

Sanitation, Public Health, Chemistry, Pollution

    Opens by noting that a 'Learnèd chemist' had written in The Times that the 'Thames stink is innocuous', since it is 'mere ammonia'. Wishes the chemist would experience the smell by 'Lodging upon Thames-brink', and 'would bet a pony' against science on the subject of smell. Concludes by upholding the harmful nature of the odour and that 'Thames-mud ain't smelling-salts—pace the Times'.