(Advertisement) No More Taxes Nor Any Other Medicine
Anon
Genre: | Advertisement, Spoof |
Subjects: | Medical Treatment, Politics, Disease |
People mentioned: | John Bright |
Puffs the 'FRANCHISE PILL' of 'DR. JOHN BRIGHT', 'Fellow of Birmingham University'. Notes that this 'inestimable medicament' is the product of 'twenty years of researches in America' and offers a 'Certain cure for all Disorders, physical, mental, moral, social, and political'. The advertisement includes a long list of such disorders, including 'Taxes', 'Corns', 'Tooth-ache', 'Smoky Chimneys', 'Circumlocution', 'Puseyism', 'Davenport Brothers' (William H H Davenport and Ira E Davenport), 'Sensation Novels', 'Earthquakes', 'Mumps', and 'Black-balling'. |
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