Volume 1

A letter from the facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe [i.e. W. Wagstaffe] at Bath, to his loving brother the profound Greshamite, shewing that the scribendi cacoethes is a distemper arising from a redundancy of biliose salts / [William Wagstaffe].

  • William Wagstaffe
Date:
1719
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Credit: A letter from the facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe [i.e. W. Wagstaffe] at Bath, to his loving brother the profound Greshamite, shewing that the scribendi cacoethes is a distemper arising from a redundancy of biliose salts / [William Wagstaffe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ u ] very Man, who proves our Microcofm to be Subjefl: to the Depredations of the Bile, may fhew that Atheifm and Impiety are imported from the Indies, in the Form of Tea, and ride Triumphant thro7 the World in an Equi¬ page of China. Thus the gravefl and wifefl Perfon, may appear fometimes the moft re¬ fined Coxcomb, as well as the moft fcurri- lous, tho’ a Man of Learning, the moft Illiterate Pretender to it, and fluff a Volume with fuch Trite and Trivial Obferva- tions even in our own Art, that a Phy- fician will defpife, an Empiric only read with Patience, and none but a Nurfe admire, or attempt to imitate* How¬ ever, this is to be remembred that, what¬ ever Contradictions, Blunders, Falfities or I)i- grejjions an Author may commit, thro’too great an irregularity of the Salts, '■ he is ea- fily to be excufed, or if his Deductions are not clear*to every Body, which you confefs to be your own Cafe ; for Idon’t queftioil but, while you was Writing fome Parts of your late Treatife, that your Brain might ftepafide, to unload your Cogitati¬ on of its Excrement, to direfi the Oeconomy 'ofyour Kjiicnackitarian, or Dome flic Animals, to take care of your Toad, or your Butterfly, or the Shooing of your Horfes<