Genre:

Introduction, Drollery; Exam Paper, Spoof

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Medical Treatment, Disease, Charlatanry, Education

    Responding to news of the formation of a College of General Practitioners, the author notes that a 'highly important' branch of 'General Practice' is the 'treatment of cases which do not require it'. Thinks practitioners and their teachers should learn how to consult their own interests and provides an examination paper to test this skill. Model answers to questions aim to make the patient believe he is ill and pay for treatment. For example, the answer to the question, 'How long, in a given case, would you send in medicine', is, 'As long as the patient believed himself ill'.