[QUACK MEDICINE; HYDROTHERAPY] Songs of the Pacific : or, Light on the Samoan question. by HENDERSON, Marc Antony (pseud. of STRONG, George Augustus 1832-1912]

San Francisco, Cal. : Pacific Bank, 1889. Small octavo (170 x 105 mm), original stitched yellow wrappers printed in black (light staining), the lower wrapper with an advertisement for the Pacific Bank; pp. 56; early pencilled calculations to inside of upper wrapper, otherwise internally clean and sound, a very good copy. A vicious satire on hydrotherapy (a.k.a. hydropathy), in the form of a parody of Henry Wordsworth Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha. The poem itself is entitled The Song of Milkandwatha; translated from the original Samoan-Feejee by Marc Antony Henderson, D.C.L., professor of the Samoan-Feejee and South-Sea Islands language and literature. It was originally published as The Song of Milgenwater (Cincinnati: Jones, Brown & Robinson, 1856). Trove locates only the NLA copy.