However, I am not sure I understood that correctly. I thought Lydgate viewed this sort of arrangement as unethical, and that patients should be able to buy their medicines from whoever was cheapest.
An apothecary would pay a cut to the doctor for every patient sent to him to buy medicine. I thought what he was objecting to was that most doctors had cosy arrangements with certain chemists (I suppose apothecaries in them days). I am not quite sure what the controversy is with his not dispensing medicines. There have been three or four points so far (chap 49) where I have wondered whether Lydgate was doing the right thing: Posted By kev67 at Fri, 6:02 PM in Middlemarch || 5 Replies Why is he so weak? The way he is written he seems more like seventy. No Mr Bounderby was in her bedroom, and I wonder whether he was just not interested in women.Ĭome to think of it, I wonder what was really medically wrong with Mr Casaubon. In one chapter Louisa is described leaving her bedroom to have a serious talk with her brother. That marriage looks like it may not have been consummated either. Interestingly, Martin Amis also talked about Hard Times by Charles Dickens in which a fifty-year-old Mr Bounderby marries a twenty-year-old Louisa Gradgrind.
There was a bit in the book, after they have had a bit of a row, when Dorothea meets Casaubon in a corridor and they go to their bedroom.
I did wonder if they ever got it on, but apart from them not having any children I could not detect any evidence either way. I just read this article in The Guardian in which both Martin Amis and Kathryn Hughes write that the marriage between Casaubon and Dorothea was unconsummated.
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