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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    the fidvertisement should appear in all the dailj' papers. I vaut you now, Eutter, to make up for me a few para- graphs for de iuside of de ])apers, and I vill pay you veil if you can get them inserted. You say you know de feUows dat make up de news. Come, come, you must try, and if you succeed, I vill give you five pounds. Five pounds constituted, in his present position, a mine of wealth to Tom Eutter, and he eagerly set about his task. His plan was precisely similar to that already practised with so much success. He cut out of the papers (more par- ticularly the country ones ), and adapted for his employer's benefit those neat little paragraphs found in their corners. One lamented the sad injury the use of impure materials was makiug in the health of hundreds of patients ; that cancer and other diseases might be traced to the corroding plates put into the mouths of the unwary; at the same time inti- mating that by the system adopted by Mr. Yernon Galbray all such impurities were avoided; and then followed a short panegyric on the beauty and usefulness of the various pro- cesses patented by that distinguished practitioner. Another similar paragraph would call the attention of the British public to the value of atmospheric pressure as a means of adjusting artificial teeth, incidentally remarking that this wonderful discovery was made by that eminent Siu-geon-Deutist Yernon Galbray nearly twenty years ago,
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