Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—G

Graham

A charlatan who gave indecent and blasphemous addresses in the “Great Apollo Room,” Adelphi. He sometimes made mesmerism a medium of pandering to the prurient taste of his audience.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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