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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$to have a ]uack drefs’d up every clay in one of your own Suits of Cloaths, to accompany you about the Town for Converfation-faki (fome CratFd-brain d Fellows ufing talk tc themfelves as they walk along ! ) you coulc not be more apt than you are, at crying Quack! .Quack ! Nay, Empirical Rogues, Vi- lainous Quacks, Devils EmiJJaries, Impofiors it, Grain, (p. ix.) Quack of the Town, (p. xvi.^ Mercenary Mifcreant, (p. xxx.) Dutch Quack. (p. xxxi.) Sophifters and Impofiors, (p. xxxv^ Dr. Damnable, (p. 192.) Villain, Rogue, (p. 2 fa. Quacking Empirical Fellow, fp. 262.) Quack- Dolt or, (p. ibid.) Quack-Salver, ( p. 263. ^ Quacking Apothecary, (p, 250.) Quaking, Quae- Doctor, (p. 249.) Quack Doclrefs, (p.253.' Thefe, and many other Expreffions of the like kind, are often repeated in your But if you have bellow'd all thefe fine Flour ifies of your Specimens of your E- Jucaticn and Accomplishments, upon Perfon: more Learned and Skilful than your felf on the Account of things in their own hfa« ture, neither Criminal nor Disputable , anc of which you are as guilty as any one of the Perfons you endeavour to fiigmati&e with thefe Names, you will (uhlefs you be, ai I fear, wholly pall that Grace!) Blulh foi your Indifcretion in the Matter! §. 2. You Juggefi ,(p. 248.) indeed, but dc not prove that Suggefiion, that the Ferfons yoi refled upon, and exclaim againlt, as Quacks\ have all been Taylors, Barbers, Weavers, Ba Mtrs,$

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