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

Date:
1873
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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 the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    pensate themselves, under a bad literary bargain, by the reflection, that they may thus, in a small way, contribute to one of the noblest charitable institutions in the kingdom. The Illustrations of the Battle o' Glen Tilt call for a word of acknowledgment. At a Sketching Club, which met in the house of my friend John Ballantyne, R.S.A., the above song was given out, as the subject on which each member was to exercise his inventive and executive talents. The sketches thus dashed off by the able hands of John Faed, E.S.A., Thomas Faed, E.A., John Ballantyne, H.S.A., W. Fettes Douglas, PuS.A., James Archer, R.S.A., and tlie kite William Craw- ford, A.Pt.S.A., were presented to me by Mr. Ballantyne. In prospect of the present edition I applied for, and at once got the consent of these distinguished artists, to use their sketches as illustrations, and they have accordingly been photographed by ]\Ir. E. W. Dallas, F.E.S.E. Douglas Maclagan. Edinburgh, Mmj 1872.