A song, sung at a select meeting of the College of Physicians : Monday, October 19th, 1795.

[Dublin] : [publisher not identified], [1795]

1 leaf (2 unnumbered pages) ; 18 cm (8vo)

Six quatrains signed at end "W.B", just possibly William Brooke

On the verso is an "Answer To The Song ... ", signed at end "J.W.B" i.e. John William Boyton

The subject of both squibs is the election of Edward Hill as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, mentioning inter alia Edmund Cullen, Patrick Plunket, Robert Perceval and Stephen Dickson. For the background to some of the allusions, see J.D.H. Widdes, A history of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, 1963, p. 89 ff

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: A.R. Heath

Not in ESTC (1990)

ESTC N493383