Vernon Galbray, or, The empiric : the history of a quack dentist.

  • Weiss, Felix
Date:
1875
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Credit: Vernon Galbray, or, The empiric : the history of a quack dentist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and he ardently longed to visit England, and trj' there the many Bc-hemes he had been maturing while living in Holland. He had asked himself, over and over again, what branch of art he should practise. Clockmakers he could stand no chance against, it must be something less familiar to the many, something in which he could emploj' his po-^'ers of persuasion, either the puffing of a quack medicine, or the possession of some pretended secret, giving him a good field for advertisement. The more he went into dentistry, the more he felt per- suaded that this was the very business in which his peculiar talents would have room for display. From the moment the idea struck him, he looked to every guilder, and set down on paper the sum of his worldly wealth. His mother's little fortune remained intact, this he found he could now legally claim, and app]y to the purpose he contemplated. I vill leave this land of fog and vater, he soliloquized. I have said it, and I vill keep my vord.
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