Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Societies, Medical Treatment, Psychology, Gender

    Discusses the Royal College of Physicians' proposal to establish a 'Chair of Psychological Therapeutics, or Medicine as applied to moral and intellectual diseases', a move prompted by the need to evaluate compensation for broken-hearted or bereaved women. Relishes the prospect of a remedy for curing the 'ailments of the inner senses' and notes that a College of Physicians professor has already discovered medicines for lawyers whose 'fallacies have become chronic'. Believes the materia medica may be enriched by 'psychological physic'.