Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 1.

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Description

Songsheets on medical and health-related themes. Includes: 'The pain-killer polka', 'The crutch polka', 'The vegetarian', 'The medical man', 'Dear kind doctor' (sung by george Robey), 'The doctor' (sung by Dan Leno), 'Nostrums', 'Song of the perfect cure', 'Medicine Jack', 'The drug strores' (sung by Will Edwards), 'Morison's pills', 'Jonathan Jay' (by Clifford Grey), 'Doctor Jeremy Snob' (J.G. Maxwell, 1798), 'Antbody ill?' (sung by Alf Walker), 'The quack's song' (sung by Edward Terry). Songs are about quacks, patent medicines which do very little to cure, doctors and vegetarianism.

Physical description

1 folder ; 43 cm.

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    EPH+57

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