Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Medical Treatment, Domestic Economy, Surgery

    Discusses an advertisement in The Times from a young man offering his services as a groom and medical practitioner. Presumes that the request for skills in the 'routine of surgery' includes such adulterous acts as 'rolling bread up into pills'. Suggests that medical professionals, 'for the sake of appearances' and public confidence, should conceal any 'unions of occupation' they may have.