title: Hyp-Doctor
text: # Hyp-Doctor
  
  The Hyp-Doctor was an 18th-century weekly paper edited and produced by John 'Orator Henley'. It was a pro-Walpole newspaper established in opposition to another periodical of the period, entitled the Craftsman.
  
  The first number of The Hyp-Doctor appeared on 15 December 1730, and it ceased publication in 1741.
  
  