Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 by Various
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOL. 1. FOR THE WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 11, 1841. * * * * * THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE LONDON MEDICAL STUDENT. 11.--HOW MR. MUFF CONCLUDES HIS EVENING. [Illustration: E]Essential as sulphuric acid is to the ignition of the platinum in an hydropneumatic lamp; so is half-and-half to the proper illumination of a Medical Student's faculties. The Royal College of Surgeons may thunder and the lecturers may threaten, but all to no effect; for, like the slippers in the Eastern story, however often the pots may be ordered away from the dissecting-room, somehow or other they always find their way back again with unflinching pertinacity. All the world inclined towards beer knows that the current price of a pot of half-and-half is fivepence, and by this standard the Medical Student fixes his expenses. He says he has given three pots for a pair of Berlin gloves, and speaks of a half-crown as a six-pot piece. Mr. Muff takes the goodly measure in his hand, and decapitating its "spuma" with his pipe, from which he flings it into Mr. Simpson's face, indulges in a prolonged drain, and commences his narrative--most probably |
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