Works : With some account of his life / By John Coakley Lettsom.
- John Fothergill
- Date:
- 1784
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Works : With some account of his life / By John Coakley Lettsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![To defcribe in detail what would be proper for the purpofe, belongs not to this place. I will only mention, that the lefs it is in quantity, and the lighter in kind, the better. Many of the perfons I have defcribed, will not bear liquid fuppers fo well as folids. Indeed the volume hurts them as much as any thing. Broth, gruel, panada, and the like, feldom are eafy to them, and feem to difagree, by becoming flatulent and oppreffive, I will detain you no longer than to mention a circumftance in which I am concerned, and which one day or other may pofTibly be your fate; and I truft you will therefore allow me to expofe a Bookfeller’s impofition. I would obferve, that feveral years ago, a pamphlet was publifhed under the title of Rules for the Prefervation of Health, &c.; it confifts of parts taken from Dr. Mackenzie’s Rules of Health, and extracts from feveral other Authors: it was the produce of an eminent Bookfeller’s fon, who being in want of a little ready cafh, threw thefe together, and publifhed them under a name as near like mine as he dared to do *, and which has been tortured fince into as many likeneffes as the change of a few letters would allow him. Many people have purchafed it, under an opinion that it was mine; and againft this impofition I wifh to enter a caveat, where I believe it will remain, as long as any books in our profeflion are read. Having informed the Public oftener than once of its fpurious origin—the title has been reprinted, and the name varied every time. As you, Gentlemen, are all of you liable to a fimilar treatment, you muff make my cafe your own ; and permit me to declare, that the tradt in queflion is a barefaced impofition. * The Title-page now before me is—“ Rules for the Prefervation of Health; being the Refult ** of many Years Practice. By J. Forthercell. The Sixth Edition, with the following Ad- *• ditions: ,e I. Above Two Hundred of the moft approved Receipts for all Diforders incident to Mankind. “ II. Dr. Jurin’s Account of the Effedt of Soap Lye, taken inwardly, for the Stone. “ III. The Hiltory of Mrs. Stephens’s Medicines, and her Original Receipt for the Cure of the s‘ Stone. ** IV. The prefent new Method of Inoculation, the Small Pox,” fay] omitted,—“ and alfo in ** the Natural Way.” The Title-page is here given at full length, as it may alfift the Public in guarding againft the impofture. I have feen the fourteenth edition of the Title-page. Sometimes my name is printed as above, fometimes S. Fothergili. ; fometimes M. D. is added; with many other variations, none of them exadlly correfponding to the name and defignation, yet all of them retaining fuck a iimilitude, as to impofe upon the inattentive part of the Public. 4 I OBSE XG](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21517460_0735.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
