"Begone you old wretch, with one leg in the grave ..." [graphic].

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Title: "Begone you old wretch, with one leg in the grave ..." [graphic].
Contributor: Clements C. Fry Collection of Medical Prints and Drawings (Yale Medical Library, Historical Library)
Published / Created: [19th century]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Place of publication and date supplied by curator.
Below image left: 15.
Verse below image: Begone you old wretch, with one leg in the grave,\ Do you think I would wed you? besotted old knave,\ You daily are getting more drunken and worse,\ And would now wish to get a young wife for a nurse.
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Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Taking medicine; Foot baths; Coryza.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24.4 x 18.0 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works)
Wood engravings
Material: wood engraving ; and hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Fever
Alcoholism
Sick persons
Medicines
Basins (Containers).
Subjects: Fever
Alcoholism
Sick persons
Medicines
Basins (Containers).

Access: Public
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