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Barn-Yard rhymes; showing what opinions the turkey, the cock, the goose, and the duck, enterain of allopathia, homopathia, electro-galvanism and the animalcule doctrines.

New York: G. & C. Carvill & Co., 1838.

A critique of medical practice and procedures in 80 pages of rhymed couplets voiced by farmyard animals. Mary Griffith, who published these satirical poems anonymously, dedicated the work to the Philadelphia physician Nathanial Chapman, who she considered "one of the 'three good doctors.' "

Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

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Entry Number#11431
Permanent Linkhttps://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/13630
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLbarnyard-rhymes-showing-what-opinions-the-turkey-the-cock-the-goose-and-the-duck-enterain-of-allopathia-homopathia-electrogalvanism-and-the-animalcule-doctrines

Geographic Context

Publication place: New York

Mentioned in annotation: Philadelphia