Sinopsis

The city physician, or the country doctor of an old-settled locality, with all
the appliances of cultivated and refined life around them; possessing all the
numberless conveniences and luxuries of the sick-room; capable of
controlling the many adverse circumstances that exert such a pernicious
influence upon successful practice; having at command the assistance, in
critical and anomalous cases, of scientific and experienced coadjutors; the
facilities of good roads; the advantages of comfortable dwellings, easy
carriages, and the pleasures of commingling with a cultivated, mild,
refined society, cannot fully realize and appreciate the condition of their
less favoured, humble breth...