Punch,  54 (1868), 160.

Scientific and Seasonable Intelligence

Anon

Genre:

Announcement, Spoof

Subjects:

Societies, Medical Practitioners, Quackery, Medical Treatment, Charlatanry


    Announces that Thomas Holloway delivered the Harveian Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians, and, following John Abernethy's saying that 'at forty every man is either a fool or a physician', observes that many in the audience were aged over forty.



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