Quackery unmask'd: or, reflections on the sixth edition of Mr. Martin's [Marten's] Treatise of the veneral disease ... and the pamphlet call'd The charitable surgeon, &c. Containing ... observations concerning the veneral disease; and the method and medicines proper for its ... curation. Proper remarks on Mr. Martin's Admirable medicine and his Infallible preservative. A full ... account of quacks and ... An account of some excellent medicines, etc / [John Spinke].

Spinke, John

Date:: 1709

Credit: Quackery unmask'd: or, reflections on the sixth edition of Mr. Martin's [Marten's] Treatise of the veneral disease ... and the pamphlet call'd The charitable surgeon, &c. Containing ... observations concerning the veneral disease; and the method and medicines proper for its ... curation. Proper remarks on Mr. Martin's Admirable medicine and his Infallible preservative. A full ... account of quacks and ... An account of some excellent medicines, etc / [John Spinke]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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C*3 ] the like Cafes ; thefe Practitioners are (ah ftil’d Empiricks, and, by our Author, a Man accuftom'd to the higheft Flights of Billingfgate Rhetorick, Quacks. §. 3. Thus we may obferve that a Man cannot be a Rational and Methodical Practitio¬ ner in the Art of Curation, that does not un¬ derhand the Nature of the Difeafe hepretends to Cure; and the Nature of the Remedies with which he defigns to cure that Difeafe. The firft Chapter of this Book, in my Opinion, clearly makes it appear, that our Author, Mr. Martin, knows very little of the Nature and Ejfence of the Venereal Difeafe : The fe- cond Chapter proves dire&ly that he is (un- lefs he knows better than he has commu¬ nicated to the WorldJ as grofly ignorant of the Nature, Qualities, Vertues , and various Preparations of Mercury (which he (p. 292.J makes to be the only Antidotes for the Cura* tion of this Difeafe) as a Man can well be ; it follows therefore of Conference, that in relation to this Difeafe at leaft, he can't be (Licet Socius Chirurgorum Londinenjium ille fit) a Rational and Methodical Practitioner. And therefore I advife him to-remember that (p. 392.) he has told us, c When any one ‘ falls upon the PraBick Part, that is alto- c gether a Stranger to the Theorick, there is c an Hundred to One againft him, as to his f Patient’s Recovery, &c ” Which if it hap¬ pens, Is more by Hap, than any good Cunning. ” , ' §.4. The

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