Mirror of Literature,  8 (1826), 137–39.

Gifts and Givers

Anon

Genre:

Essay, Extract

Publications extracted:

New Monthly Magazine

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners


    The writer observes that the 'true nature of a gift' is well illustrated by 'what is called giving a dinner', in which the 'first object is usually to captivate the good will of some individual' (137). Thus 'rising physicians' give dinners to apothecaries, and patients give dinners to their physicians 'thereby feloniously designing to sponge an opinion'. The writer reports that Robert Willan 'advised his young medical friends against lending themselves to such schemes' (138).



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