. The funny side of physic : or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice. An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries. here yester arternoon. Voygeshort an few squalls. Hopes to find old father stout, andam out of pigtail. Sight o pigtail at Gravesend but unfortinately unfit for adog to chor. I send this by Captns boy, and buy me poundbest pigtail and let it be good — best at 7 diles (Dials), siirnof black boy, and am short of shirts — only took two,whereof one is wored out and tother most. Captns boy love


. The funny side of physic : or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice. An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries. here yester arternoon. Voygeshort an few squalls. Hopes to find old father stout, andam out of pigtail. Sight o pigtail at Gravesend but unfortinately unfit for adog to chor. I send this by Captns boy, and buy me poundbest pigtail and let it be good — best at 7 diles (Dials), siirnof black boy, and am short of shirts — only took two,whereof one is wored out and tother most. Captns boy loves pigtail, so tie it up when bort an put inhis pocket. Aint so partickler about the shirts as presentcan be washed, but be sure to go. to 7 diles sign of Black PUKE SOCIETY. Gi3 boy and git the pigtail as I haint had a cud to chor sincethursday. Poundll do as I Bpcct to be up tomorrow or dayartor. an remember the pigtail—so I am your lovin brother Tom . P. S. dout forget the pigtail. Puke Society. — How a young Man was took in. When a young man is about to be taken into society,the question naturally arises, Is the young man, or the soci-ety, to be benefited by the accession? As the young man. EXAMINATION OF THE SMOKER. seems anxious to make his debut there, we presume he is tobe benefited by the initiation into pure society. Since nine tenths of the young men are tobacco-users, wewill presume safely enough that this young man is one of 644 A CANDIDATE. them. He has used it from five to seven years, — sufficienttime to admit of its becoming part and parcel of him. The young man — John is his name — is before theexamining committee, who, not being blind or obtuse fromthe use of the weed themselves, and knowing no young manis fit to enter pure society who uses, or has used, tobacco,without being purified, they submit him to the test, with thefollowing results: — His clothes are impregnated with tobacco, the examinerreports. Let them be removed and purified9 is th


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