Life — May 3, 1883 — page 14: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

216 -LIFE- Of course the Major has his troubles. Sometimes doesn't work satisfactorily, and then of course —— eS > THEY FORGET TO FEED HIM, and he is compelled to skirmish for himself. Then shoved into the Major already, and he is now so used again, whenever the Professors of Pathology, Therapeu- ¢4 jt that his regular cocktail of prussic acid, vitriol tics and Materia Medica have discovered a new reme- and arsenic is as necessary to his comfort as is the dy, or think they have, the Major gets the first dose of annual " it Sometimes —— ‘THERE IS TROUBLE. Over one-half the entire pharmacopeia has been comicbooks.com