Martine decides to avenge his drunken husband, the logger Sganarelle, by making him look like a doctor who agrees to exercise only if he is beaten. Combining scenic virtuosity, false patois, and gallant themes, the piece revives the tradition of anti-medical satire.This edition puts the work back in its time, and allows us to appreciate both the differences in reception between the 17th and 21st centuries, to meditate on the dangers of credulity, and to enjoy the power of the comic effects that we have. Rejoice again today. But the latter takes advantage of this deception, prodigying with conviction farfelus medicines and fantasistic diagnoses, with Latin strength of cooking; he even puts his talents at the service of a loving couple separated by the will of a father.