In the Cuna treatment many interpretations — a songful of them — appear to come from the shaman and to be imposed on the patient by this clinician.

Our passions […] subminister to the best and worst purposes.

like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits

British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.