# Le Malade imaginaire prints public doctor-satire that can teach distrust of medicine

Date: 1673

## The fact

In February 1673 Le Malade imaginaire made physicians a public joke while the author, ill, played the hypochondriac.

It is one event.

## Context

Satire can unmask fees and can thin trust. Split the death-after-performance as the church/burial row, which is not his medical theory. Do not invent a clinic he closed.

[Molière](/people/moliere)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and Gallica independently date the 10 February 1673 Palais-Royal opening.

Official or archival record: Gallica — Molière printed works (https://gallica.bnf.fr/; Bibliothèque nationale de France).

## Significance

A canonical doctor-farce is a health-trust cost of medium confidence, not a 1673 mortality table.

A farce is not 1666’s Médecin malgré lui only; this is the last, gravest joke.

A canonical doctor-farce is a health-trust cost of medium confidence, not a 1673 mortality table.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1673 public Malade imaginaire. Not established: a unique Paris death-rate from the play.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Molière.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

Contribution type is direct. They are not a public rating.

## People

- Molière: https://factrail.ai/people/moliere

## Drivers

- Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moliere-French-dramatist
- https://gallica.bnf.fr/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mol-doctor-satires