Punch (44.1863)

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI

203

May 16, 1863.

SPECIMEN PAGE OE THE ACADEMY
CATALOGUE.

After being carefully corrected by the Editor thereof, and handed back to
the printer 1 or publication.

202 View of Burnham Breeches . . . . J. Brown.

203 Christopher Columbia breaks the Egg . . . T. Jones.

204 Lucan, the Greek Satirist, writing his Duologues

of the Dead

205 Scene from Shouter’s Hill, Kent, with the Chris-

tian Pallas in the distance.

206 A Nun taking the whale.

207 “ Many asleep between cap and lip ’* . ,

208 View in the Bite of Benin.

“ Ocean, thou mighty Munster.”

209 Portrait of Mr. Gladstone, M.P., Chancellor of

England.

210 Sea Eight. The Battle of Acton, between the

gallows of Caesar and Pompeii

211 My heart’s in the Highlands. BenNevers, with

missed effect.

212 His first pantermine.

213 Scene from Allen Rumsey’s Gentle Jack Shep-

pard ..

214 “ Music hath power to smooth the savage beast.”

215 Reading the Epithet on the Tomb . . . .

“ i wish I was were Analyze.”

216 Design for the New Garlick Club, Covent Garden

217 Passage of the Isralites through the Dead Sea .

218 Firing the Bacon on the Reeking Shropshire

219 Ride in the Aisle of White, with yots

220 Portrait of the Right Honourable the Lord

Viscount Bladderville and Barsinister, K T.
E. G. S. D. C. L. Painted for presentation
to the Viscountess Bladderville and Barsinister,
by the tenants upon his Lordship's estates in
King darling ion and Nwntyllwchyglyn *

221 Venice attired by the Graces.

222 King Edmund showing the first Prince of Wales

to the Welsh at Carmarthen Castle

223 Scene from the Winter's Tail.

224 The Scottish islands of Jona and Stafford, with

Holborn in distance.

225 Mademoiselle Picklehominy, as Selina in Bon

Gavarni.. . •

P. Robinson.

E. Smith.

W. Williams.
H. Walker.

J. Thompson.

B. Twiggs.

T. Noodle.

J. Flopps.

V. Wobbles

M. Deeddies

E. Tootles.

O. Gifford.

P. Green.

J. Co/enso.

A. Rasher.

F. Scratchey.

A. Toady, R.A.
V. Buffer.

F. Snowden.

S Blacksheep.

C. Sick.

M. Gaetani.
P. Pump.

J. Fogey, A
A. Lalfygrow.

226 Group from Shiller’s Finding of the Bell

227 Sealegs in Search of a Wife ....

228 Hill Pen«eroso, near Milton

“ Nor even let my footsteps fail
To walk over the student’s oyster pail.”

229 “I wish 1 was a buoy again” . . . . G. Whitehead.

230 Lady Orderley’s Secret.A. Iloyd.

231 Marlborough, at the Battle of Rammikins, signals

the Duke of Saveloy to attack martial villas
and Buffers, and throwing himself on the
head of a regimen, execrates the charge which
won the day, and forced the Frencn to evisce-
rate their lions and flea . ... J. Ramsbottom, R A.

All perfectly correct, for a Lord is in the case.

A Puff for Handel.

A Music-seller’s Advertisement offers for sale :—

“ Madame Lind Goldschmidt’s Songs from Handel’s immensely successful
Cantata, L' Allegro ed 11 Pensieros

Handel’s “ immensely successful Cantata! ” it is a wonder that
the advertiser did not describe L’Allegro and II Pensieroso as Milton’s
highly popular poems. We expect that he will next announce Israel in
Egypt as Handel’s first-rate Oratorio, and term it a superior compo-
sition replete with stunning choruses.

1

A PATENT MEDICINE FOR SMALL-POX.

“ Mr. Punch,—In the Strand !—

“ You t bought I was going to quote a comic song. No, Sir.

“ In the Strand, Mr. Punch, opposite the North side of St. Clement
Danes’ Church, there is a shop for the sale of Morison’s Quack
Medicines. In the window of this establishment, the passing eye is
attracted by a large bill, which would be calculated, if intramural
interment were not abolished, to add greatly to the population of St.
Clement Danes’ Churchyard. It is headed, in large letters, with the
startling words:—

“ VACCINATION—ITS FATAL CONSEQUENCES.”

“Under this title is a wood-cut, represeuting an Angel bearing a
scroll, whereon is inscribed

“ THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE."

“Another wood-cut, showing a child taken to be vaccinated, is
described as:—

“THE MURDER OF THE INNOCENTS.”

“ A third is explained by the following letter-press under it:—

“ Woman going to British College of Health.—My poor child was well until
it was Vaccinated. I want information on the point. All my children but these
two are dead, and I cannot accouut for such Early deaths. I must read the
Morisoniana. ”

“ On either side of the bill is delineated an architectural column ;
that on the right ruinous, that on the left bound with garlands. On
the former are posted the 1 Supporters of Vaccination;’ namely ‘ A
Medical Priestcraft, Doctor Craft, Vaccination Fees, Fees, Fees,
Diseases iu After Life, Early Deaths, Consumption, Insanity, Scrofula,
Fevers, Mystery and Confusion, Etc., Etc., Etc. The right-hand column
bears the ‘Names of Medical Authors against Vaccination,’ containing
no one name of any note, except that of Zimple. I don’t, indeed, know
who Zimple was, but conceive that he may have been a practitioner
of local name, with a local pronunciation, in the New Forest, Hamp-
shire ; where, within the memory of man, people were known not only
to believe that horns sprouting on human heads were the consequences
of vaccination, but also to swear that they had actually seen them
growing. Probably these zimpletons, as their wiser neighbours called
them, were Dr. Zimple’s patients.

“ The man who serves in the shop evidently showed that he took me
for some such a simpleton, by the eager alacrity with which he sold me one
of these bills. I am a lumpish, heavy, common, and stupid-looking man, and
I dare say he thought me as great a fool as 1 looked. But there are many
such fools, not only among the lower but also of the middling classes.
The man may have taken me for a moderately large farmer. I had on a
suit of clothes not very new, and made by a suburban tailor. Perhaps
my friend set me down as a tolerably well-to-do grocer or something of

that sort. With the bill which I bought, he handed me a number of

the Hygeist, gratis. I respectfully thanked him. It is not now at hand.
At this moment I dare say he thinks that 1 am giving my children
Morison’s Pills instead of having them vaccinated. That, no doubt,
is what many of the class of people that I represented in the estima-
tion of the pillmonger, are really induced to do by such appeals to their
gullibility as the bill which I have described. It represents itself as

‘ Issued by the British College of Health, on the passing of the

Compulsory Vaccination Bill.’ Will the Government allow Quacks
to exhibit placards inciting boobies to disobey the law, to the dest ruc-
tion or disfigurement of their unhappy children, and the children
of other ignorant and foolish people who neglect Vaccination ? As
Small-pox is just now very prevalent, the display of a deleterious
puff of Morison’s Pills is particularly seasonable and advantageous
to the undertakers, and this letter will have accomplished part of its
purpose if it induces them to subscribe for a testimonial to the adver-
tiser of that pretended substitute for Vaccination.

“ I am, Mr. Punch, your corpulent Correspondent,

“ Rotundus.”

“ P.S. But how cau Goveruineut interfere, though? Government
stamps Morison’s Pills.”

Lost or Strayed.

A Great commotion arose iu the vicinity of Brompton Square from
its being reported that somewhere in the neighbourhood a Lease had
run out. It was immediately pursued, but, as it has not been seen for
several days, we fear that it has expired. Of course, when found, there
will be an inquest on the body of the agreement.

IGNOMINIOUS EXPULSION.

LJnreported Case.—A. gentleman who for years had paid his tailor’s
bill regularly, was in immediate want of some clothes. He entered the
accustomed shop, and—such is the gratitude of tradesmen !—was
I shortly afterwards Turned out by his own Tailor.