A boy complaining to a pharmacist about medicine dispensed for his father: his mother had misunderstood the dosage instructions. Pen and wash drawing by F. Gillett.

1 drawing : pen and ink, with wash and white highlights

Pencil lettering on mount: "F. Gillett". On verso, "Urchin 'Please sir, father don't seem any better for this 'ere powder, 'e seems worse'. Chemist. 'Dear me, dear me; I said particularly he was to follow the directions. Did you give him as much as went on a threepenny bit'. Urchin 'Yessir, leastways muvver 'adun't got a threepenny bit, so she put it on three pennies!'"

Wellcome Collection 37935i