| Show GIMAT QUACKS medical frauds names are recorded in ili lie pages paces of ll story Y tile the urea reit t london qu quack ae k of the lima of charles II 11 was ir dr thu thomas fr saffold Baff old he was as orlain originally ally a weaver weave r but adopted the more pitying paying busl ness of pretending to cure nil all dis dig eades ea ies anil and to foretell the of hla his Pett patients lents rhe che adoth decaries or of that time not only acted as aa medical one diral quacks but als fortune tellers queen quean anne aline had 0 weak eyes eos and enthusiastic patron of vulgar ignorance Ig horance in the form forin of eye doctora tim duc tors tora two of them she anti and one of these william Read eshe made a Baronet although he wits was most wretchedly ignorant ien orant as a short sod and exact account of all the disease incident to the eyes which he published remains to ti testify was it worthless tailor buthe stopped steppe fl in ili it 11 atto ablo and paying paling gracile a ft r tle ha ob talked ills hie royal roval favor ll JI was unable to read the book which hei he wrote bythe by the hand blind of a surl be but its aliat liat at nude fide no difference to the hie wealthy fouls ilia his patrons the queens other fiorile fA rite orile quark oculist was waa roger bra jurant t it retired cobbler and anabaptist ba preacher grunt grant was in the ba habit bitof of publishing tini accounts of matures his cures wirtly ri A tissue of lies iles but with enough truth interwoven 1 I civo a semblance of probability ills plan was to secure some gome poor person whose sight eight was waa imperfect anil and after giva elvany ili him 11 1 money all alij medicines wedi ain Cines for a lew few W 8 per auada liidi it I 1 tit to sign siga a that arli ho it til td been born bora blind and never caver enji td the tha of sight idi WHIM iian led hina him to dr grant who v hi I 1 bud cured him in more than a jf if he be could buy a from the clergymen and wardens of tho tha parish where the alleged patient lived to the tha effect th hat atthe the testimonial wa was 8 true very nellif he could not obtain gen kind he could always flod people to forra forget them lor for a small sum the recent impudent certificates apparently signed by numerous prominent people to attesting ln g the virtues of a b brand of bitters m battila a in an eastern city show that the quacks its of tills this order aro are still to t ho faund plynne heli infamous trade tile the must famous abil learned for the time of that not disdain to deal in secret nos thus sir hans sold an eve era salve and dr meade a remedy d y for hydrophobia consequently the were in making what they c could but of a public which wai no not t too intelligent to be swindled by their most reno renowned 1 physicians the doctors at least had bud nu no reasonable ground for complaint plaint t in the spectator for july 27 HH 1714 there Is an BI nu recount of it a typical quack of the period and steele has recorded some capital anecdotes or of these gentry oneff one of them claimed he could curo cure cataracts because ho bo had bad lost an eye in the emperors emperor a service this evidence of ability wa thought all sufficient by him the he good people who patronized him one follow fellow calling himself dr IC Katter 8 felto tir traveled a vel 0 d about with ft al large laree cage containing a number of black cats which equal to a modern diploma lomat in the way of inspiring coan deace la jn hn ft at louis I 1 democh 4 |
