Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Medical Practitioners, Crime, Gender, Human Development

    Responding to news of a severe sentence given to a man for 'an error in the administration of a remedy', thinks medical men should 'give up practice; because in their case an error in judgement' is inexcusable. Blames 'other parties'—undoubtedly patent medicine sellers—for causing 'ignorant females' to give poisonous substances to infants.