Genre:

Essay, Satire, Caricature

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Medical Practitioners, Government, Charlatanry, Quackery, Politics

    'Dr' Peel, a representation of the Prime Minister Robert Peel as a 'quacksalver', is asked to cure a horse. Notes that Peel refused to use his strange medicines on his 'patient' (the allegorical figure of Britain, John Bull) until he was paid a fee. Peel will not write Bull a prescription until he has studied the diseases and the 'whole Materia Medica'.