Mock-heroic poem · 1699

The Dispensary

A Poem in Six Cantos

by Sir Samuel Garth

A mock-heroic satire on the apothecaries who opposed the College of Physicians' free dispensary for the poor, told as an epic battle of drugs, doctors and allegorical spirits. Text of the first edition (London, 1699), with its original spelling.

Contents · 6 parts

• Canto Iabout 180 lines
• Canto IIabout 210 lines
• Canto IIIabout 240 lines
• Canto IVabout 240 lines
• Canto Vabout 250 lines
• Canto VIabout 300 lines

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