Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Mesmerism, Quackery, Medical Practitioners, Electricity, Mesmerism, Morality

    Laments the 'random nature of the shots that science has been taking' against cholera, including 'electricity and mesmerism, brandy and catechu'. Lamenting the sacrificial use of patients, criticises the Royal College of Physicians for stating that practitioners should persevere with a treatment on a patient until he is satisfied that it is either 'beneficial or deleterious'.