Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
- Scott-Gatty, Alfred, 1847-1918.
- Date:
- 1908
- Ephemera
- Online
About this work
Description
Satirical songsheet written in a comic German accent about a travelling seller of patent medicines (made of rhubarb, squills, butter, soap, flour and cheese), plaisters and tooth extraction. Cover is a lithograph of a bespectacled man in check trousers and hat, string bag of medicines on his back, dog's head umbrella under his arm and a box of pills in his left hand. The song appears to have been published in earlier versions, going back to 1869 by Robert Cocks & Co. The back page bears the first page of 'The ould side car' by P.J. O'Reilly and J. Airlie Dix.
Publication/Creation
London : Gould & Co., 1908.
Physical description
1 score (5 pages) : illustrations ; 36 cm
Contributors
Notes
First line: How do my friends! How are you all?
Type/Technique
Languages
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesEPH+57Location Access Closed storesEPH+57:12Note