Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Medical Treatment, Commerce, Quackery

    Responding to an attack on medical practitioners and their extortionate fees by a correspondent in The Times, blames the public for making medical practitioners 'dwarfish, sycophantic, ridiculously nimble and consequential'. Attacking patients for their 'squeamish imbecile flunkeyism' towards medical practitioners, advises the correspondent to dismiss the 'agreeable' practitioner (since a doctor and his physic should be 'disagreeable'), to pay only for 'necessary attendance', and to learn enough medicine to be able to judge when doctors are really necessary.