Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Medical Treatment, Quackery, Pharmaceuticals

    Responds to an advertisement for the recipe for a medicine to treat 'a disease of great suffering' that has been 'laying dormant' owing to the 'death of the medical gentleman' who made a 'large practice' out of it. Taking this to imply that it is the disease and not the recipe that has been lying dormant, suggests that the disease will be revived by the successor to the 'medical gentleman'.