Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Quackery, Medical Treatment, Gender, Class

People mentioned:

Thomas Holloway , James Morison

    Noting that physicians are forbidden to advertise, responds to an advertisement in The Times from 'L.C.', putatively Dr Linkumfeedle, a 'fashionable physician' who defends women against charges that they find childrearing 'a great bore'. Linkumfeedle insists that upper and middle-class women have to be persuaded to relinquish this duty to wet nurses but the writer believes 'vulgar medical science' favours nurses in this role. Responding to Linkumfeedle's criticism of high-born mothers who ruin their health through childcare, considers that Linkumfeedle is the physician who attends, makes considerable profit from, and advertises himself to serve the 'highborn and wealthy'.