Genre:

Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Medical Practitioners, Quackery

    Discusses the use of Samuel T Coleridge's term 'ultra-crepidated' to describe the tendency of people to 'make it their business to attend to everybody else's business but their own'. Regards an apothecary as an 'Ultra-crepidator' who causes mischief by 'going beyond the boundary of his pestle and mortar'.