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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    t 4' ] . , was in the Right to endeavour her Ex* pulfon, for running out of her own Col¬ lege for Advice. For there is a Sort of Parochial Communion in Phyfick, which is Decent, Neighbourly, and ought to be obferv’d, and the Whim of running after thofe, they never faw, for their Advice/ is moft pernicious to a Praffitioner of a narrow Diftritf. Befides, ’tis Aftonifhing to fuppofe* were not the Woman’s Ig¬ norance declar’d, that a Man, whofe Fame is fo well eftablifliM in other Nations, a- piong the Foreign Literati, and the Pro* feffors of the Vniverfities abroad, fhould lofe his Character at Home, and amongft thofe who are the belt acquainted with his Peferts* If fhe had indeed an Antipathy to Oyl, it may pafs for a tolerable Excufe, anfl I cannot, I muft own, but pity fuch, who by an innate Averfion to this Catholicon, are debar’d of the greateft Bleffing, Hea*- ven has difcover’d to us, for the Cure? of our Ailments and Diforders* I entirely acquiefce, Sir, in your Opinion, That tht Beginning of all Things, Good and Bad to the Body, are in the Stomach, and that, in all Cafes, the Contents of this Organ mujl be cafl up by Vomit, or bridled and reprefs*d by Vntiious Medicines. If a Man has got the Chilblains, the Piles, or., the Misfortune Of a Clav, it is owingfi I ngres, to the Lug* gagt and Lumber of the Stomach, and no- P . F thing