A treatise on the prevention and cure of the venereal disease : intended to guard the ignorant and unwary against the baneful effects of that insidious malady / by W. Buchan.

  • William Buchan
Date:
1808
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Credit: A treatise on the prevention and cure of the venereal disease : intended to guard the ignorant and unwary against the baneful effects of that insidious malady / by W. Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The late Dr. Gregory, of candid me- mory, ufed to fay, that the quack did not tell half fo many lies for himfelf as his patients told for him. This is founded in human nature. Men will vindicate their own conduct, and often even at the expence of truth. I have met a man coming from the Manfion Houfe, where he had been carried by a quack to make oath, before the Lord Mayor, that he was cured of what I knew to be an incurable difeafe. I do not fay this man was perjured. His pain might have been fufpended, and he might believe himfelf cured: but was foon undeceived; for he died in a few * days, and, in all probability, his death was accelerated by the lullabies he had taken. Magiftrates ought to be extremely cautious how they adminifter oaths to people in favour of quack medicines. The quack himfelf is generally perjured in fwearing that the medicine was his own