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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    the fighting of Prizes, the hatting of liv¬ ing Quadrupeds, and the throwing at Cocks on Shrove-Tuefday may be attributed, and, had you not been fill’d with this Diet in your Youth, you had never been expell’d the Royal Society for your Infolence or ill Manners, which I am fure are not natu* ral in your Gonftitution. . 4* In Abort, Sir, no fooner did the Romans come to feed on thefe made Difhes, but their Courage and Refolution, and all the Virtues of the Intonfe Cato and their Daring Ancefiors, began to melt and to diffolve, like Anchovies in a Sauce, and to dwindle till their whole Empire was De¬ vour’d at a Meal, by the Goths and Vandals. A f ictus Callus has done more Mifchief by his Opfoniis, and Condiment is Veter urn, than Arrius and all the Ancient or Modern Hereticks put together; and, had we never feen nor heard of him, it had been happy for our pflabltfbment both in Church and State; For ’tis the Fire of the Cook that fets the Bile in Agu ration, and occasions the Inflammatory Commotions and Diforders you have treated of, and when the Fire of the Chymijlis added to if, the Patient may be reckon’d juftly to Efcape,' ictidenfpc ; which, our Barf on tells me, is lb far-from the |nter.
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