The Necessity of Medicine
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Medical Practitioners, Commerce, Public Health |
Regards a surgeon's Lancet advertisement for an unwaged 'Gentleman' assistant as an illustration of the cheapening of 'medical science'. Speculates that the advertiser is a Poor Law medical officer who enjoys only 'mean and wretched [...] pittances'. | |
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