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.

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    lity in quackery,) “ efpecially when direc- “ tions are fo plainly given as they generally “ are.” Here again Mr. Spilfbury is evidently miflaken, many of Mr. Spilfbury’s patients, intelligent, and (excepting in the inflance of trailing their health to the mercy of a quack or his medicine) prudent perfons, have gone long ftages towards a confirmed hedtic, be¬ fore they could be aware of it; and Mr. Spilfbury mull know this will be the confe- I quence of fuch an indifcriminate ufe of mer¬ cury, or he has not even fo much as a thick¬ ened and congealed knowledge of phyfic, more efpecially as the medicine is taken from the advertifement, without its being known or fufpedted what it is, and they are not cauti¬ oned or guarded again!! the danger of taking cold, which the manner of life of the takers of advertifed medicines, will much ex- pofe them to, being moflly the lower order of people, who live by induffry or labour j and the diforders arifing from catching cold, whilfl taking mercury, are not the leaf! alarm¬ ing, as fevers, confumptions, falivations, or inflammations of the brain j and thefe are not % fidtious I