Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Disease, Medical Treatment, Religious Authority, Quackery, Faith, Supernaturalism

    Responds to news that the Cardinal Vicar of Rome, Costantino Patrizi, has directed that 'dried anatomical preparations' of saints be 'exposed to the adoration of the faithful' in order to avert cholera. Contends that faith was behind the use of 'Mummy' in the 'materia medica' and is in operation in the cardinal's cure.