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

Date:
1873
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    AiE—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,^ Who, if he only had his due. Would surely make his fortune. Chorus—But if you 'II keep your mbuls at ease, You 'II soon hear more about it ; But first let's liquor, if you please, For singin' 's dry without it. Reform it made a monstrous 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 Age, No. 201, 18th March 1848. Dr. Morton of that city [Boston], the gentleman to whom, I believe, the profession and mankind are really and truly indebted for first reducing into practice the production of insensibihty by ether inhala- tion, with the object of annihilating pain in surgical operation.— Dr. Siinjison on Etherization in Hunjery, Edin. Monthly Journal, Sept. 1847.