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A letter from the facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe at Bath, to his loving brother the profound Greshamite, Shewing, That the Scribendi Cacoethes is a Distemper arising from a Redundancy of Biliose Salts, and not to be Eradicated but by a Diurnal Course of Oyls and Vomits. With an appendix concerning the application of Socrates his clyster, and the use of clean linnen in controversy.
Wagstaffe, William 1685-1725.Date: 1719- E-books
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A letter from the facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe at Bath , to his loving brother the profound Greshamite, shewing, That the Scribendi Cacoethes is a Distemper arising from a Redundancy of Biliose Salts, and not to be Eradicated but by a Diurnal Course of Oyls and Vomits. With an appendix concerning the application of Socrates his clyster, and the use of clean linnen in controversy.
Wagstaffe, William 1685-1725.Date: 1719- E-books
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The Harangues, or speeches , of several celebrated quack-doctors, in town and country. Containing, 1. Dr Rock's harangue to his political patients in Covent-Garden. 2. Dr Rand's speech, in prose and verse. 3. The High German doctor's, and his English fool's harrangue, with the quack's invitation to his auditors, to buy his infallible packet, in humorous verse. 4. The horse-doctor's speech to the credulous mob. 5. T. Jones's harangue, the Yorkshire quack. 6. Alexander Bendo's speech to the gentlemen and ladies of Great Britain. 7. Jo. Hains's speech the High German doctor and astrologer in Brandipolis. 8. R. Wilmore's harangue in praise of his divine elixir. 9. Don Lopus's harangue to his patients at Madrid, with a brace of songs, translated from the Spanish by an impartial hand. Concluding with the character of a quack, several merry receipts, and three mountebank songs. By various hands.
Date: 1762