Punch,  22 (1852), 211.

A Domestic Enigma

Anon

Genre:

Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners


    Argues that, while 'it may be desirable that a physician's prescription should sometimes be written in ciphers and contractions unintelligible to the patient', there is no reason for butchers' bills to be illegible.



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