Punch,  45 (1863), 223.

Fine Words for Foul Works

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Language, Medical Practitioners, Crime


    Discussing the 'fashion now for calling foul things for fine names', draws attention to a letter from a medical correspondent in the Daily Telegraph, who described how a murderer offered a 'fatal chalice' to his victim, a 'stagy' phrase which Punch considers 'entirely out of place in a medical analysis of the evidence brought forward in an actual case of crime'.



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