A letter / from J. Keyser, surgeon and chymist, of Paris, to Mr. J. Wathen, surgeon, of London, in answer to his pamphlet, intitled, Practical observations on the veneral disease, &c. ... To which is added a letter from the learned Prof. Le Cat, of Rouen, with an account of a remarkable cure ... performed with ... [Keyser's] medicine.

  • Keyser, J., active 1752-1765.
Date:
[1765]
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Credit: A letter / from J. Keyser, surgeon and chymist, of Paris, to Mr. J. Wathen, surgeon, of London, in answer to his pamphlet, intitled, Practical observations on the veneral disease, &c. ... To which is added a letter from the learned Prof. Le Cat, of Rouen, with an account of a remarkable cure ... performed with ... [Keyser's] medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    But nothing of all this appears, and the public arc obliged to fubmit to the ipfe dixit of an anonymous writer, which is very feldom regarded by men of fenfe ; and Mr. Wathen certainly can do himfelf very little credit, by quoting random paflages of fuch a performance againft a medicine, efpecially as it will be made appear that the writer has adled as invidioufly as unjuftly on his part. But you, with this writer, are pleafed to account for the reputation of thefe pills in France, &c. (for it feems you allow them to have acquired fome re¬ putation) “ from the interefted patronage of the great, &c.” Is it pofiible, Mr.Wathen, is it poffible that a gentleman, who, like yon, muft be fuppofed to have fome acquaintance with the genteel world, can (loop fo le as to be the retailer of fuch illibe¬ ral refie&ions on men of the firft rank and charac¬ ter in a learned and polite nation ? Does honour, humanity, and truth, refide no where but in your country ? Let me afk Mr. Wathen, does he think fo meanly of the great perfonages immediately a- bout a court, and the prefence of their fovereign, and who many of them, from them military offices, have the inlpedlion of the health and treatment of ihofe brave fellows who have ventured their lives in the fervice of their country, that they are to be, by any conlideration whatever, biaffed to give their, fanction to the ufe of a medicine, which, inftead of alleviating the diforders of the wretched iufferers3 Ihall leave them in the fame or a worfe ftatc than it firft