[Denham answered] Gas bombs, Old Man! My own prescription. […] Gas bombs powerful enough to knock a row of elephants for a loop.

His distinctive, frenetic minimalism, condensed lettering and rebuslike signature (“H. Kurtz,” with a little figure of a “man” at the end) were developed during the course of this strip.

[W]hat Virtue there is in this Remedy lies in the naked Simple it ſelf, as it comes over from the Indies, and in the Choice of that which is leaſt dried, or periſhed by the Voyage.

The bisque was a soup of the biset — with the biset added to it in the tureen together with a ragout or relish.