Certain medicines have to be rationed in Germany, it is reported. Doctors must give none containing sugar, and must take care in issuing prescriptions containing fats, bismuth, alcohol and other curatives.
We're a pain in the neck of poor Adolf, We give him a headache each day.
We're a thorn in his side, "We've buckled his pride And turned the old forelock dark grey.
He can't get his bismuth as usual, His ration of spirit is short, And the stuff that is meet For chronic cold feet Is not to be stolen or bought.
But the medicine he needs is forth-coming, Prescribed with professional skill—And won't that boy holler "When he has to swaller The ultimate sugarless pill!—H. R. in the "Daily Herald."
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