Punch,  40 (1861), 230.

Medical Reform

Anon

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Pharmaceuticals, Chemistry, Language


    Asks the Apothecaries' Hall whether, given the line from William Shakespeare's Macbeth, 'throw physic to the dogs', and the knowledge that quinine is made from bark, quinine should be called 'Canine'.



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