Genre:

Preface, Drollery

Subjects:

Politics, Homeopathy, Temperance, Medical Practitioners, Pharmaceuticals

    Hood laments the impossibility of making topical political comment whilst living abroad: 'I might have been insisting on a fairer mode of Registration—when the whole system had been Rumfordized and the Books ordered to be kept on the principle of Cobbett's Register' (vii). 'The Ode to Dr. Hahnemann is recommended, with infinitesimal respect, to the consideration of those Members of the Faculty who, adopting the doctrine of minute doses, prescribe for their patients on Temperance Principles, and have their Dispensary in Pump Court'. Declares that 'the incidents of the , Fatal Bath stand [...] on the solid legs of fact'. (x)