Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Invention, Music, Medical Practitioners, Quackery, Language

    Reports on the invention of the 'Trito-Dactylo-Gymnast' which strengthens the third finger of a hand and thus improves a pianist's performance. Speculates on how the composer Felix Mendelssohn would have benefited from such an invention, but warns that the device is supported by a dubious medical witness and that the complex name recalls the thespian John P Harley's quip 'the more Greek the more Quack'.