Nugae canorae, or, Epitaphian mementos (in stone-cutters' verse) of the Medici family of modern times / by Unus Quorum.

  • William Wadd
Date:
1827
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Credit: Nugae canorae, or, Epitaphian mementos (in stone-cutters' verse) of the Medici family of modern times / by Unus Quorum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    who, although he was never ill in his life, was cured of every disease incident to human nature, and swore to it also. In fact, his life was a life of continued swearing and disease. The late Lord Gardestone, himself a valetu- dinarian, took the pains to inquire for those persons who had actually attested marvellous cures, and found that more than two thirds of the number died very shortly after they had been cured. Horace Walpole also gives us several instances of distinguished victims to Quackery. “ Sir Ro- bert,” says he, “ was killed by a lithonthriptic medicine; Lord Bolingbroke, by a man who pre- tended to cure him of a cancer in the face; and Winnington died soon after, by the ignorance of a quack, who physicked and bled him to death in a few days, for a slight rheumatism.” There was a period when Quackery was not practised with impunity. One Fairfax was fined and imprisoned for doing great damage to several persons by his Aqua Coelestis; Anthony, with Aururn Potabile; Arthur Dee, for advertising medicines which he gave out would cure all dis- eases ; Foster, for selling a powder for chlorosis; Tenant, who was clever enough to sell his pills at 6d. each; Phillips, for selling strong waters; Hunt, and many others, for similar offences. Some civilized and wise communities have incor- porated such severe dispensations into their mu- nicipal laws, as to allow of no distinction between
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