Duncan's grand panacea, an infallible cure for all diseases / translated into Pindaric rhyme by Dr. Barclay, and published at the fortieth anniversary of the Edinburgh Harveian Festival, 14th April 1821.

  • Barclay, John, 1758-1826
Date:
1821]
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Credit: Duncan's grand panacea, an infallible cure for all diseases / translated into Pindaric rhyme by Dr. Barclay, and published at the fortieth anniversary of the Edinburgh Harveian Festival, 14th April 1821. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DUNCAN’S GRAND PANACEA, . • • I AN INFALLIBLE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES, Translated into Pindaric Rhyme by Dr BARCLAY, and Published at the Fortieth Anniversary of the Edinburgh Harveian Festival, 1 kth April 1821. If aught be found wrong in our frolics to-night, A hundred years hence will set it all right: ’Tis folly to sacrifice comforts to fame; * \ . A hundred years hence it will be all the same. And what tho’ the cynic approves not our glee, A hundred years hence he’s not wiser than we.