Genre:

Short Fiction, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

J Leech *

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Medical Practitioners, Quackery, Government, Politics

    Story in which the Prime Minister Robert Peel appears as a quack doctor who had been summoned by Britannia to cure her worsening disease. The doctor administers 'several grains of Inquisatorial Essence', 'a very few scruples of delicacy', and an 'Income Tax' pill. Britannia recovered but the medicine did not agree with her 'Constitution' and 'left several bitter complaints in place of the original malady'.