"in which every remedy contained a multitude of far-fetched and heterogeneous ingredients, as elaborately compounded as if the proposed result had been the Elixir of Life."
the studies R.C. took up were linked to cure, since he was a doctor. But this line tells us something mysterious and sinister about his job: the comparison between his "benefic" potions and the Elixir of Life remindes us alchemy, a science considered evil, which seems here the way he uses to cure people.
Yes, but does he cure?
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