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'.