Anybody ill? : (I'm Doctor Quack) : the popular humorous song / music by Alfred Lee ; sung by Alf. Walker.

  • Lee, Alfred.
Date:
[between 1870 and 1879?]
  • Ephemera
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Anybody ill? : (I'm Doctor Quack) : the popular humorous song / music by Alfred Lee ; sung by Alf. Walker. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Songsheet nos. 5008 & 5009 (musical bouquet) about a travelling doctor and his patent medicines (made of railway grease, soap, dutch cheese and castor oil etc.). The satirical song touches on syrup of squills, camomile pills, measles, croup, whooping cough, plaisters, toothache, wooden arms and leeches.

Publication/Creation

London : C. Sheard, [between 1870 and 1879?]

Physical description

1 score (6 pages) : illustrations ; 35 cm

Notes

Song for voice and piano.
First line: I am a learned surgeon and my name is Doctor Quack.

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    EPH+57:17

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