Morbus anglicanus sanatus, or, A remarkable cure of an inveterate scurvy ... / in a letter from a country clergyman to his son in London. Concluding with a contrivance or two, for saving the lives of those, who shall happen to be in the upper rooms of a house, when the lower are on fire.

Date:
1766
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Morbus anglicanus sanatus, or, A remarkable cure of an inveterate scurvy ... / in a letter from a country clergyman to his son in London. Concluding with a contrivance or two, for saving the lives of those, who shall happen to be in the upper rooms of a house, when the lower are on fire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I am firmly perfuaded, would enfue there¬ from, than from the Ufe of his ungrateful Beverage. The Affurance of an H— might not be unferviceable to me; as by eternally adver- tifeing, People would perhaps be teized into an Attention to a Matter, in which their own Advantage is fo nearly concerned. Either Ingenuity or Effrontery would Hand me in Stead, to make my Cafe of public Benefit. But I mult be contented with a plain and dry Narrative of a Matter of Fadt, as it happened to myfelf; and with drawing a Statural Conclufion from it. I do avow, in the moft faithful and folemn Manner, the good Effedts before mentioned, from this innocent and palatable Recipe. It was fo efficacious in anfwering the End required, and fo fpeedy, as indeed aflonifhed me. And if I was fo much, and fo quickly be¬ nefited by it, why fhould not others in the like Circumflances ? If one, why not two ? If two, why not ten ? If ten, why not a Hundred ? If a Hundred, why not Thou¬ sands ? Let no one therefore be fo infatua¬ ted.
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