Genre:

Reminiscences, Spoof

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Gender

    The narrator recounts his own experiences of married life as a warning to others. He found that his wife's aches and pains were all occasioned by the want of expensive items, such as diamond ear-rings, which she considered the 'infallible specific' for her ear-ache. He warns his readers: 'never let your purses pay for the aches and pains of your cara sposa [...] open them but for the payment of Æsculapius' (18).