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.].
- Thomas Green Fessenden
- Date:
- 1804
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: 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.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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