Genre:

Regular Feature, Editorial, Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Disease, Medical Treatment

    Recalls the circumstances of 'an illness which, but for a certain doctor, who was brought to me by a certain friend I had in those days [John Forster], would, I think, have prevented the possibility of my telling this interesting anecdote now a dozen years later'. Thackeray's drunken old servant, however, administered the doses of medicine 'not the way in which Dr. Elliotson had intended his prescription should be taken'. (509)

Reprinted:

Thackeray 1863

See also:

Peters 1987, 191