Genre:

Serial—Introduction; Short Fiction

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Ancient Authorities

    The narrator asserts that 'according to the ancient historians, each individual part of the human body had its respective physician, so that the ear-doctors, eye-doctors, tooth-doctors, clyster-doctors, foot-doctors, &c. stoutly defended their own domain and territorial jurisdiction on the superficies of the human body, against the encroachments of their colleagues' (516).