Show quack nuren doctors SALT aaice LAKE CITY sept alth 1875 editor deseret mews news in your last evenings evening paper I 1 noticed a passing allusion to humbugs humburgs of the fortune telling sort tort there are bilks or humbugs humburgs of another c lass class who need as much attention as any the quack doctor kind there is a fellow around trying to swindle people in that lin Jin ejust now he comes announced as a great man with all the letters of the alphabet attached to his name in the shape of bogus titles of the materia medica medico sort H he visited me at my place of bus business 1 less and in introduced reduced t himself with a bombas flo ilo flourish that would have put don quixote to the blush and indue induced d me to form the opinion that he might have been stage manager in one of those old country shows where tragedy is dealt out in doses several people were present but he singled me out as subject for manipulation I 1 was asked to excuse him but I 1 had a disordered liver my food did me no good goad the juices of the body were defective the substances that should build up the frame were thrown clIT onit ac during the time he was speaking his piece for ho he 11 spoke lie it like a stage struck seh sch schoolboy school bolto boy ay I 1 tried to get in a word edgeways by way of telling him ho he was at sea and that I 1 was not afflicted with the multiplicity of fleshly ills with which he accredited me but he would not be interrupted as it might break the thread of his lesson and ho he might not take it up again at the proper place and BO so might have to begin again after he had spun ills his yarn out I 1 told him etwas all a mistake but retreated he treated my remark as if I 1 had not made it and then asked nr pir a piece of paper and pen to write a prescription that would make me over a again ain all new in about a month he wrote some hieroglyphics pies dies and instead of ba halding handing tiding it to me rae folded it up an and dettick stuck it in his hia pocket uthen liethen took me aside and spoke toneann tone and and aud lun tur informed ormed me ine I 1 was afflicted amic td with still ullo ulio horrible ailment aliment again I 1 jtb sted but I 1 had to wait till he got uell uail k th til arap anio ar fp long piece that he had leaned by heart when I 1 had a chance to tell him that he was waa certainly mistaken by the way of course his advice is ali all ali given gratis U he returned afterwards bringing with him a bottle of medicine which was to make of me another man although t I 1 preferred to be myself do you want pay for that sir S said aid 1 I ir i Cert alnY you yoli can keep heep your medicine I 1 dont believe in it if you will give me that prescription as you said you would I 1 will test it and if it is worth anything I 1 will will I 1 pay you I 1 have no faith in you nor your medicine and dont intend to pay you any money i the fellow discovered the situation although it is hearly nearly an impossibility P to blut bluff him and went out of the store with amusing alacrity however by his advice gratis he succeeded in convincing a friend of mine that he had bad a tion of or diseases that was fast hastening him to the grave and that he could arrest his progress in that direction by his invincible decock eions a bottle of which he sold to h him im at 50 the the style y e manner and general behavior and appearance of the man stamp him to the ordinarily keen observer as an unmitigated Impost impostor orand and humbug and I 1 draw the attention of the city authorities to him in case he is practising practicing without license he is one of a class who keep traveling from one place to another never stopping but a short time in one locality lest their true character be discovered and who are gene gere generally rally raily t successful in carrying away the money of the unwary and unsuspecting A person so n who will play upon the afflictions of his fellows to make money out of them is worthy only of contempt and the public should be protected against such creatures or rather vultures vui tureh turea yours respectfully ANTI QUACK |