Terrible tractoration!! A poetical petition against galvanising trumpery, and the Perkinistic Institution : in four cantos : most respectfully addressed to the Royal College of Physicians / by Christopher Caustic, M.D. [pseud.].

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Terrible tractoration!! A poetical petition against galvanising trumpery, and the Perkinistic Institution : in four cantos : most respectfully addressed to the Royal College of Physicians / by Christopher Caustic, M.D. [pseud.].