Punch,  42 (1862), 185.

Inconceivable Fatuity

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Medical Practitioners, Education, Psychology


    Discusses the case of a man who took legal action against a chemist for prescribing inappropriate medicine, but who adopted the surprising course of going to the chemist on the advice of a beadle, a course of action which it is suggested shows 'hopeless feebleness of mind'.



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