Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 2.

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Songsheets on medical and health-related themes. Includes: 'I wonder what next they will do?' (Herbert Campbell), 'The zodiac, a series of favourite songs' (J. Richards), 'Les médecins' (Th. Ymbert), 'Lamentation of Marie Antoinette, late Queen of France on the morning of her execution' (Stephen Storace), 'Mary's ghost, or the favorite anatomy song' (J. Blewitt), 'Mr. Double Stout, or trying to get thin' (Harry Clifton), 'Le Docteur Isambart' (Joseph Kelm), 'Ipecacuanha, or the doctors daughter' (W.W. Thornton, Arthur Lloyd), 'Laughing gas, or a night at the polytechnic' (John Nash), 'L'homoéopathie, ou les malices de la médecine' (Hyppolite Maignand), 'Melchisedec bristle' (J.G. Maxwell) 1798), 'Three old woman weatherwife' (George Saville Carey), 'The cork leg' (T. Hudon, Mr. Fitzwilliam, J. Blewitt), 'When a man's a little bit poorly' (T. Hudson, J. Blewitt), 'Les trichines, prière à St. Antoine relativement à la maladie des cochons' (Edmond Lhuillier), 'Le pharmacien de St. Gratien' (H. Cazeaux Klein, Maurice de Mirecki), 'Good luck to Beecham's Pills' (photocopy). Songs are about: doctors, Marie Antoinette, ghosts, artificial limbs, pharmacies, laughing gas, almanacs, sick pigs, homeopathy and obesity.

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1 folder ; 43 cm.

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