Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Medical Practitioners, Quackery, Crime, Government, Politics

    Responds to news of the imprisonment of a medical practitioner for administering poison to a stonemason. Strongly advocates transportation as the only means of dealing with quacks, once Home Secretary James R G Graham's bill becomes law. Thinks the latter piece of legislation gives quacks 'a carte blanche for prescriptions, even of arsenic, or prussic acid, in any orthography, and no matter what dose'.