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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    taking into confideration the prefent ftate and tendency of quackery, and confequently fup- preffing it j but his fears. I apprehend are groundlefs, the legiflature could not yet be prevailed upon, to put a tax upon dogs, in compaffion to thofe who buffer by thofe crea¬ tures running mad, therefore perhaps quacks may ftill be permitted to follow their trades, notwithstanding our fair reprefentations of the evils refulting. <c Can it be expected,” fays Mr. Spilfbury, (p. viii. dedication) “ that thofe fo opulent “ praditioners, already drowned in profufion» voluptuoufnefs, pleafure, and luxury, will tc exert their thickened and congealed imagi- tc nations, in the improving an art, the very defeds and imperfedions of which, alone “ conftitute that unfathomable golden mine, £C whence they draw all their wealth ?” The opulent practitioners do not draw all their wealth from the imperfedions of the art, they have more confiderable emoluments, I believe, from the number and fandion of ad- vertifed medicines in thefe kingdoms; but, were Mr. Spilfbury’s drops, and inch kind of ’ ' ad vertifed