Nugae canorae medicae / lays by the poet laureate of the New Town Dispensary.

  • Douglas Maclagan
Date:
1850
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Credit: Nugae canorae medicae / lays by the poet laureate of the New Town Dispensary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    ^i)t &ti)tv Song. Ain— Yankee Doodle. A Yankee notion 's come to town— A rayther knowin' go, Sir— That flails the whole of Britain down, As you shall quickly know, Sir. This dodge, so clever and so new, We 've got from Doctor Morton,i Who, if he only had his due, Would surely make his fortune. Chords—But ifyou 'II keep ijour minds at ease, Tou 'II soon hear more ahout it; Butfirst let's liquor, ifyou j^lease, For singin' 's dry without it. Keforra it made a raonstrous talk, Free trade in corn and beans, now ; But this thing, by a mighty chalk, Beats both to smithereens, now. 1 Vide Littel's Living Agc, No. 201, 18th March, 1848. Dr. Morton of that city [Boston,] thc gentlenian to whom, I bclicvc, the profcssion aiul mankind arc really and truly indebted for first reducing into practice thc produotion of insensibility by ether inhalation, -with the object of annihilating pain in surgical operation.—£>r. Simpson on Etlieriz- ation in Surr/ery, Edin. Monthly .Journal, Sept. 1847.