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

Date:
1873
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    His right the fiddlestick; he had, d' ye see, Been practising Beethoven's No. Three; And by his side tliere lay the silver bow Which Homer talks so much about, you know,^ He welcomed me with that good-natured mien Which men of rank assume, when they can deign To condescend a little ; then he spoke Of things in general, and cracked a joke Or two with the young ladies; then turned to me. Asked how we got on at N. T. D., If we had filled our numbers up again. And Avho this year was giving the champagne. I told him Bennett. Bennett! now you quote him, The fellow who sings Largo al factotum ? I know him well; he's made a great sensation Here, with his Treatise upon Inflammation. We take it, that it's meant to be a quiz ■ Upon our jolly old friend Bacchus' phiz. Who now exhibits as you may suppose, The ' exudation globule' on his nose, He then talked politics, and seemed to feel His way with me, and asked what Peel Was doing. Why, I said, just now. In Scotland Peel has made a precious row. He wants to take away their one-pound notes^— A scheme that rather disconcerts the Scots j 1 'ApyvpoTo^os 'A7rdXX(ai'.—lUados B. 766. Toiiy pkv 'ATroXXa)!/ ire^vev utt' apyvpeoio /3toto.—Iliados SI. 605. 2 The mode in whicli tlie exudation is thrown out aifects in some degree its ap]iearance.—Dr. Hughes Bennett on the Development of Exudation, Edln. Monthly Journal, Feb. 1847, p. 586. V. note, p. 14. We have called these bodies pla.itic corpuscles from the frequency of their occurrence in Plastic Lymph. By Valentin and others they have been named exudation corpuscles.—Bennett, op. cit., p. 587. 2 He would not either in Scotland or Ireland abolish the power of