Completely found via Neil Gaiman's blog and for which I am both grateful and now fully immersed. While I won't really be using it in what I'm writing about via 1889, it is none the less intriguing and wonderful.
Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
job’s dock - He is laid up in Job’s dock; i.e. in a salivation. The apartments for the foul or venereal patients in St. Bartholomew’s hospital, are called Job’s ward.
rabbit catcher - A midwife.
paw paw tricks - Naughty tricks: an expression used by nurses, &c. to children.
You get the idea.
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