Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.].

  • Charles Thompson
Date:
1899
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Credit: Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    were wrought to the highest pitch of ex- pectancy, and all eyes were turned to the chief crier who walked to the front of the dais to read the proclamation. “Be it known to all present, burghers of the free city of Nuremberg,” he cried, “that the learned and honourable physicians of this city having denounced Philip Valdagno, com- monly known as ‘Zorastro,’ as a charlatan and impostor, and an unworthy professor of the art of medicine, the said Philip Valdagno, to purge himself of that charge, undertook the cure of one Max Teufel, a late sergeant of the guard, and to produce him before you healed of a foul disease within one month, which expires on this day. We therefore now call on the said Philip Valdagno to pro- duce this man before his Excellency, the Duke Ernest, Burgraf of this free city, the learned and honourable physicians, and the burghers thereof, and prove his challenge.” The crier’s voice had scarce died away when an uproar arose at the back of the hall, and above the hubbub of voices were heard shouts of, “Down with the impostor! Down with the charlatan ! ”