Genre:

Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Medical Practitioners, Heterodoxy, Quackery, Disease

    Announces that a government board of physicians has confirmed that 'Universal Vegetable Pills, Pills and Ointment, and Life Pills' can cure 'all diseases'. Distinguishes 'ordinary medicines', which are poisonous 'when taken unnecessarily', from 'Medicine for the Million'. Regards the attestation of this medicine by 'every cobbler, tinker, tailor, clod-hopper, and mechanic' to be trustworthy. Advises readers to take the medicine instead of 'having recourse to medical men'.