Morbus anglicanus sanatus, or, A remarkable cure of an inveterate scurvy ... / in a letter from a country clergyman to his son in London. Concluding with a contrivance or two, for saving the lives of those, who shall happen to be in the upper rooms of a house, when the lower are on fire.

Date:
1766
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Credit: Morbus anglicanus sanatus, or, A remarkable cure of an inveterate scurvy ... / in a letter from a country clergyman to his son in London. Concluding with a contrivance or two, for saving the lives of those, who shall happen to be in the upper rooms of a house, when the lower are on fire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to have Infirmities conquered, and removed, which might be thought unconquerable and immoveable; to have the Health andChear- fulnefs of Twenty-five return in the fifty- feventh Year; and to have the Profpeft of a tolerably comfortable, inflead of a mifera- ble. Old Age, are fuch favourable Events, as conftrain me, invita Minerva, to com¬ mence Author: Not for the Sake of being in the lowcft Clafs of public Scriblers; not with a View of tranfmitting my Name to Pofterity; not in Hopes of picking People’s Pockets, to fill my own j not to ram down the Throats of my Fellow-Creatures a Tincture of one Vegetable, or the Ef- fence of another, uncertain and regard- lefs whether they kill or cure, if I am, but a Gainer: But with the foie Inten¬ tion of contributing to the Relief of a numerous Race of Mortals, my fcorbutic Brethren, I wiih, mod earneftly wi/h, for the in¬ genious Pen of a Berkeley to explain the Nature, and defcribe the Virtues of this Medicine j and thus to allure the Num¬ bers to tafte and try it, as he did his Tar- i Water. Many more good Confequences, I am