Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Charlatanry

    Shocked to find that on an advertisement for an assistant surgeon at University College Hospital, an 'impudent scoundrel' had changed the offered salary from £35 to £335. Expresses annoyance because butlers, who have numerous domestic chores and whose 'inferior' education includes 'finesse' and 'reading the daily papers', earn only £40.