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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$He that is not fo thoroughly vers'd in the Materia Medic a, and in the Nature of an Humane Body, as* upon viewing the Prefers- ftions recommended by Authors, to be well afford what 'Effects they will produce,, ought wholly to forbear making Experiments with <em3 left he ftiould hill his Patient inftead of curing him. We have Mr. Martins W ord (p. 267.) that every Quack values himfeif for feme Noftrum of his own : And p. \&c. he(in demonftration of the Truth there¬ of ) informs us^ how highly he values him¬ feif on his own Noftrum, TinSlura Glonofa 1 And (p. 128J he tells you,, that the many ,Cures he has from time to time perform’d,, make manifeft his having .Antidotes and Spe- mfteks for the Venereal Boy [on : But if you want to know what Cures he nas evei per¬ form’d in the Venereal Difeafe, he names you oorie• but tells you (p. xxxf. of his Preface] that you mu ft een take loss Word for t! What Quack can fail thus to prove himfeif poC fefs’d of Specifcks.l And that he has done innumerable Cures therewith!. But he ha ving made fo much JSioife in divers parts o Ms Book about his Specif cks, Noftrum s, Se ,€rets, £zc.- that (f 31 ?•). Hundreds of People have flood in Admiration ot : That (p. 62.; .Never will fail in a Thoufand Tryals, &c is it not pleafant to obferve him (p. xxxe >of his Preface) aliening., That the Work Begins to-fee through fuch-Cob-Web Afar a | And that fuch Arcana, Secrets, &c. tai thre$

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