Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.

  • Scott-Gatty, Alfred, 1847-1918.
Date:
1908
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Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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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

Notes

First line: How do my friends! How are you all?

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