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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    Straightway ray servant, with raysterious face, And an expression bordering on a grin Or a half-smothered snigger, entering, says A person asking, Sir, if you 're within. That word, a person, is a thing I hate; The announcement of a gentleman or lady Is quite another thing. As sure as fate, A person 's something coming to invade you. A person calls for water-rates and taxes; A person brings you in his little bill; A person comes with steel pens and cheap waxes, And pesters you to buy against your will; A person calls for poor-rates—(Botheration ! These poor-rates half our incomes up will swallow soon ;) A person comes with begging supplicatiou, All duly countersigned by Dr. Alison ;— In short, a person is a bore, a nuisance, And not by that Removal Act amended, Which so appropriately, a month or two since, The Privy Council have to us extended.^ No w^onder that I asked, in angry tone, What sort of person wants me now to-night? ' Whereas it is expedient that the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Pre- yention Act, 1848, should be amended, and that tlie powers of the General Board of Health should be extended; be it therefore enactcd by the Qucen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of thc same, that this Act shall be deemed pai-t of the Nuisances Removal andDiseases Prevention Act, 1848, and shall beconstrued accordingly.—An Act to aimend the Nuisaxces Removal and Diseases Pkevention Act, 1848. [Ist August 1849.']—/oiirnal of Piiblic liealtk, Septembei; 1849.