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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    My Dear Son, THOUGH your Conduct from your Infancy has, in every Refpedt, been dutiful, and very agreeable to me ; yet from no Inftance of your filial Regard, and Affedtion, have I re¬ ceived that folid Satisfaction, and Plea- fure, as from the feveral Vifits, you have made a Point of paying me, fince you were engaged in the Mercantile Way pf Bufi- nefs. In our private Converfations, at fuch Times, I have the Comfort of obferving, that the Expences of your Education have not been thrown away; nor the Advice, I have given you from Time to Time, given in vain: That the A 2 Hopes,