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Doctors And imagination -- Firing a joke out of a cannon -- The Paris eye water -- Majendie on medical knowledge -- Old sands of life.
Medical humbugs constitute a very critical subject indeed, because I shall be almost certain to offend some of three parties concerned, namely; physicians, quacks, and patients. But it will never do to neglect so important a division of my whole theme as this.