Medical remarks on the folly of quackery; and the danger of trusting to advertised medicines. Made in conversation with a lady / [Anon].

  • Palin, Ralph.
Date:
1801
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Credit: Medical remarks on the folly of quackery; and the danger of trusting to advertised medicines. Made in conversation with a lady / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wither away. Now this.can be the Fault of our Gar- dener only, he preserves our Beauty and Strength jor a Time, but he knows not how to ‘continue them. He must be therefore unskuful in the .Duttes of his Office, and our Decay cannot come but from his Want of Abi- ities. Letus obey such a Protector no longer: Make. | me your Gardener, and I promise you an eternal Bloom. { have a secret Manure which wall make your Flowers last for ever. ‘The Tulips, upon ‘this, very gladly receive their new Gardener, an “expect to bloom amid all the Rigours of Winter, by Aid .of his. Culture. But Winter comes, and they decay. In short, having lost the attentive Regard of their former Friend, they often wither immaturely, aud in no Case ‘prolong the Season of their flowering. After having had Experience.of this for a Time, one might expect greater Wisdom from them afterwards, but their Weak- ness continues still the same, they again listen to some such false Counsellor as the former; and remain infa- tuated with the Idea of perpetual Beauty. You smile at the Conduct of the Tulips, and call them silly, be- cause they do not seé the Gardener as their best Friend, and the most likely to preserve them against the severe Attacks of Winter, tho’ not his Power even can preserve their Beauty thro’ it. Certainly, says she, if they had our Reason and Foresight, they would: act very differently. And yet, replied J, though they do not possess these Faculties, their is as much Consis- tency in this Conduct of theirs as we find in that of many, who flatter themselves they possess them to Perfection. The Sickness of human Life resembles the - drooping of the Tulip, and there are they whose Busi- ness it is to supply to the former the same Assistance ek C as
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