Genre:

Serial—Diary, Spoof; Song, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Education, Universities, Medical Treatment, Pharmaceuticals

Institutions mentioned:

University of London

    The protagonist, Joseph Muff, is invited to answer questions on the subjects drawn from 'pharmacopoeias, books of prescriptions, trays of drugs, and half-dead plants'. Describes the award of certificates and the ensuing merriment. A student sings a song entitled 'The Student's Alphabet'. Each line of the song describes an aspect of medical school life described by a word beginning with consecutive letters of the alphabet. For example, 'Oh, A was an Artery, fill'd with injection; / And B was a Brick, never caught at dissection'.