Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 4.

Songsheets on medical and health-related themes. Includes: 'Hush a bye baby! Didn't he yell! For mammy and bottle and Ridge's as well' (Charles Townley), 'Rest thee dearest: the mothers song' composed for 'Anthropoglossos' (C. Rennie Powell), 'Doctor Brown' (William Reeve), 'Physic, law and spirits, or the history of the Yorkshire doctor' (J. Wilkinson), 'The medical student' (Albert Smith), 'Steam pills. Dr. Puffison and Mynheer von Shlop' (T. Prest, William Taylor), 'The temperance band' (Harry Ball, sung by W. Randall), 'The lady doctor's husband' (Lawreen & Oxenford, Odoardo Barri), 'Hygeia waltz' dedicated to the L.V. Pill Company (Luigi Camerana), 'Soap' (1897. T.W. Connor, sung by George Beauchamp), 'With all my heart I love thee' (William Kitchener), 'Le charlatan, ou le remède universel' (Mr. Paulin, Charles Plantade), 'A duett for a soprano and bass voice' (William Kitchener), 'The hermit's song' (William Kitchener), 'Tell me when, and tell me where' (Dr. Kitchiner), 'The blind boy' (Joseph Kemp), 'Phrenology, a new song dedicated to the heads of the universities, public schools and private families', list of new and popular songs (Boosey & Company, 1919). Songs are about: baby food (Dr. Ridge's food for infants), doctors, medical students, the medical profession, nostrums, medicines, temperance, women doctors, soap, quacks, phrenology, the blind. Songs are often of a humorous nature and were mostly published in the 19th century. Only the cover remains of some.