The oeconomy of quackery considered, in a reply to Mr. Spilsbury's pamphlet, entitled, Free thoughts on quacks and their medicines. To which is added, an answer to a surgeon's Letter to the Master, Wardens, and Court of Assistants, on their permitting aliens, apothecaries, and quacks, to encroach on the business of surgeons / [Thomas Prosser].

  • Prosser, Thomas (Civil engineer)
Date:
1777
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Credit: The oeconomy of quackery considered, in a reply to Mr. Spilsbury's pamphlet, entitled, Free thoughts on quacks and their medicines. To which is added, an answer to a surgeon's Letter to the Master, Wardens, and Court of Assistants, on their permitting aliens, apothecaries, and quacks, to encroach on the business of surgeons / [Thomas Prosser]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    15/98 (page 11)
    \ v diforcier was the itch. Mr. SpiHbury, then, endeavouring to Ihew a certainty and fafety in quack medicines, fp. xxx.) equal to thofe Tent from the {hops, labours in vain, the cur¬ rent dream of reafon and common fenfe runs againd him, and he links; and even the mod ready and bed abidance of his favourite inditution (p. xxi.) for the refurreSlion of the dead, cannot recover him,—what lays Mr. Spillbury, (p. xxxi.) “ Becaufe a mufquet has done never fo horrible a mifchief in * i “ the hands of a child or a madman, is it “ a reafon why an act of parliament diould “ be brought to forbid the manufacturing or ‘‘ importing of them in the kingdom ? ” Here Mr. Spillbury is evidently playing and paddling in his thickened and congealed ima¬ ginations, for here is no fhnile, no analogy, in his reafoning : if any one wilfully and in¬ tentionally takes the life of another with this ufeful mufquet, \#hat has Mr, Spillbury to / fay againd the judnefs of the law; this is more to the point; but Mr. Spillbury (that he may live) is to be permitted to dedroy his Majedy’s fubje&s by twos, threes, or twen- B z . ties i