Abstract
The decadence of the French Republic under the sway of speculative commercialism is most ominously evident in the fact that an opulent nostrum vendor now occupies the position in the recently appointedBrissonMinistry which was refused a decade and a half ago by the distinguished physiologist,Paul Bert. Dr.Bert(like Dr.Oliver Wollcott, one of the medical signers of the Declaration of Independence, who long remained an authority on finance) was a man of admitted skill in political economy. The recently accepted French minister of finance (M.Peytral) owes his reputation chiefly to his success as a manufacturer and promoter of patent medicines. M.Peytral, after attempting to form a ministry of his own, lately accepted at the hands ofBrissonthe portfolio of finance. He is the first patent medicine "fakir" who has ever held a cabinet position in France. His fortune was made in the manufacture
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