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Answer to Leamington peripatetics, or, "We've used our limbs and have them" : the parade-- of Dr. Jephson in his carriage going to the "Regent".

Accession number
PML 144570
Published
Leamington : Pubd by C. Elston, [1842]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Text printed in two columns below a steel engraved view of Leamington with caption: The Parades with the Regent Hotel. J. Brandard J.J. Hinchcliff, London. Pubd by C. Elston, Leamington.
Humorous verses written in response to a poem by Charlotte Elliott entitled "Leamington peripatetics, or, Use your limbs and have them," poking fun at prominent physician Dr. Henry Jephson of Leamington and his advocacy of the "peripatetic" or walking cure and facetiously accusing him of habitually driving in his carriage rather than walking in accordance with his prescribed regimen.
First line: Your lines, Sir, on Leamington Peripatetics.
Dated at bottom of first column: Leamington, August 1st, 1842.
Description
[4] p. (all but the first blank) : ill. (steel engraving) ; 23 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department