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Title: Punch
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870 Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887 Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880 Brooks, Shirley, 1816-1874 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917 Seaman, Owen, 1861-1936
Subjects: English wit and humor English wit and humor, Pictorial
Publisher: (London) : (Punch Publications Ltd., etc.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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hosearound the unfortunate lady did all in their power in the hope of restoring her toconsciousness, but unprofessional efforts must be uncertain and often misguided. It is the profession and business of a chemist and druggist to makeand sell medicines, not to practise physic. He must needs know howto prepare sal volatile, and he may have lancets to vend, but he maynot know the difference between coma and syncope, and whether aperson in a fit requires bleeding or a stimulant. He would renderassistance at the peril of the patient—and also at his own. He hasbefore his eyes the possibility of making a fatal mistake, and the horriblefear of a trial in a felons dock, resulting, at the least, in ruinous lawexpenses consequent on a verdict of manslaughter returned against himby a British Jury, under the direction of a British Coroner. EnforceResponsibility —that is a British maxim. Its necessary correlative,unfortunately, is Run No Risk. 204 PUNCH. OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. (Mat 12, 1866.
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PARTICULAR TO A HAIR. Irate Major (to hairy Sub.). When next you come on Parade, Sir, have the Goodness to leave those confounded Weather. cocks behind you ! A SABBATAEIAN IN THE SOUTH-WEST. Our well-conducted contemporary, the Hampshire Independent—&clean country paper, Pateefamilias, which has excluded quack adver-tisements from its columns, Sir—contains, under the head of OriginalCorrespondence, a communication from some one who may be supposedto be a Sabbatarian barber, on the subject of Sunday Shaving andSunday Trading. Mr. Strop, or whoever the artist is that disguisesunder his epistolary signature, as below, the name whereby he notifieshimself in letters over the entrance of the establishment behind his pole,addresses the Editor of the above-named Journal as follows:— Sir,—Having seen several letters lately in a contemporary relative to Sundayshaving, I, as one of tbe trade, could wish that it might be stopped. Surely if ashopkeeper is prohibited from selling provis

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