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Quacks and quackery - Early works to 1800

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    More seasonable and friendly advice with some curious anecdotes of the life of a renown'd quack

    | Date: 1755?]
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    Physical prudence or, the quacks triumph over the faculty. Inscribed to Lord J. Cavendish.

    | Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]
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    A bold challenge to the whole colledge of physicians or, a defence of those practitioners in physick commonly call'd quacks, namely Dr. M---tin, Dr. M---re, Dr. V---k---s, Dr. W---t--s, Dr. T---l--g, Dr. Th---n--lt, Dr. Anodyne Necklace. Cum multis alijs, both Doctors, and Doctoresses. Likewise a Vindication of many Eminent Piss-Prophets, Astrologers, Conjurers, both Male and Female, from the Aspersions cast upon them by a late Author.

    | Date: [1740?]

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