A mother explaning to a doctor that her baby's medicine has been used up quickly because the whole family tried it - to encourage baby to take some. Reproduction of a drawing by B. Prance, 1923.

Dialogue includes: Doctor. "That bottle of medicine I gave you for baby all gone? Impossible! I told you to give him just a tea-spoon every four hours." Young mother. "Yes - but my husband and I and nurse have each to take a teaspoonful too, so as to induce baby to swallow it."