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Joaks upon joaks; or, No joak like a true joak. Being the diverting humours of Mr. John Ogle, a life-guard-man. The merry pranks of Lord Mohum, and the earls of Warwick and Pembroke. With Rochester's dream, his maiden's disappointment, and his mountebank's speech. Together with the diverting fancies and frolicks of Cahrles [sic] II. and his three concubines.
Date: [1770?]- Books
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The poetical vvorks of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley Bar. and his speeches in Parliamemt [sic], with large additions ... Published from the original MS. by Capt. Ayloffe. To which is perfixed [sic], The Earl of Rochester's mountebank speech, ... With a new miscelany [sic] of poems by several ... hands. As also a compleat collection of all the remarkable speeches in both Houses of Parliament: ...
Sedley, Charles, Sir, 1639?-1701.Date: 1710- Books
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Against VVilliam Li-Lie (alias) Lillie : that most audacious atheisticall rayling Rabsheca, that impious witch or wizzard, and most abhominable sorcerer, or star-gazer of London, and all his odious almanacks, and others. / Written by John Viccars schoolemaster of Christ Hospitall, few dayes before his death, which he had prepared for the Black Munday, turned white since his dissolution.
Vicars, John, 1579 or 1580-1652Date: Printed in the yeare when the astrologers and mountebanks lost their judgments, 29 March, 1652- Books
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The harangues or speeches of several famous mountebanks in town and country.
D. G.Date: [1725?]- Books
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The harangues or speeches of several famous mountebanks in town and country.
D. GDate: [1700]- Books
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The touch-Stone: or, historical, critical, political, philosophical, and theological essays on the reigning diversions of the town. Designed for the Improvement of all Authors, Spectators, and Actors of Operas, Plays, and Masquerades. In which every Thing antique, or modern, relating to Musick, Poetry, Dancing, Pantomimes, Chorusses, Cat-Calls, Audiences, Judges, Criticks, Balls, Ridottos, Assemblies, New Oratory, Circus, Bear-Garden, Gladiators, Prize-Fighters, Italian Strollers, Mountebank Stages, Cock-Pits, Puppet-Shews, Fairs, and Publick Auctions, Is occasionally handled. With a preface, giving an account of the author and the work.
Ralph, James, -1762.Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]- Books
Women, medicine and theatre, 1500-1750 : literary mountebanks and performing quacks / M.A. Katritzky.
Katritzky, M. A.Date: [2007], ©2007- Books
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The touch-Stone: or, historical, critical, political, philosophical, and theological essays on the reigning diversions of the town. Design'd for the Improvement of all Authors, Spectators, and Actors of Operas, Plays, and Masquerades. In which every thing antique, or modern, relating to Musick, Poetry, Dancing, Pantomimes, Chorusses, Cat-Calls, Audiences, Judges, Criticks, Balls, Ridottos, Assemblies, New Oratory, Circus, Bear-Garden, Gladiators, Prize-Fighters, Italian Strolers, Mountebank Stages, Cock-Pits, Puppet-Shews, Fairs, and Publick Auctions, is occasionally handled. By a person of some taste and some quality. With a preface, giving an account of the author and the work.
Ralph, James, -1762.Date: MDCCXXVIII. [1728]- Books
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An appeal unto Caesar : being an inquiry whether homoeopathic physicians are quacks, charlatans, imposters, mountebanks, etc. / by Geo. E. Shipman.
Shipman, Geo. E. (George Elias), 1820-1893.Date: 1865- Pictures
Glysterpipe Fillpacket, Peregrino Mountebanko and Timothy Mouth: three dwarfs as itinerant medicine vendors selling their wares. Engraving.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 20659i- Books
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A compleat treatise of urines, Shewing the right Method of Urinal Prognostication, Far different From the Common Practice of Quacks and Mountebanks. By T. H. Pharmacop. Rustican.
Hicks, T.Date: 1703- Books
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Apologia chyrurgica. A vindication of the noble art of chyrurgery, from the gross abuses offer'd thereunto by mountebanks, quacks, barbers, pretending bone-setters, etc. ... / [Daniel Turner].
Turner, Daniel, 1667-1741Date: 1695- Books
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Newes out of the west, or, The character of a mountebank : being a discourse betweene Hodge Leather-Pelch, and Tym Hob-Nayle, Sir Harry-Hart-Hole their land-lord, and his friend Sir Clement Councell : also of their travels from Taunton to London, their arrivall at their physitians pallace, the description of it, his sick and brain-sick followers, person and family, with a full relation of the medicines hee commonly administers, their operation and danger represented by them : also a relation of their abuses now suffered and fomented by authority, with a remedy set down, to the encouragement of physitians, illustration of the honour'd art and generall good of the Re-publicque / by a well willer to physick and chirurgerie and deplorer of the now too common neglect of them.
Well willer to physick and chirurgerie and deplorer of the now too common neglect of themDate: 1647- Books
[Sōotomía (romanized form)], or, observations on the present manners of the English: briefly anatomizing the living by the dead. With an usefull detection of the mountebanks of both sexes / By Richard Whitlock.
Whitlock, Richard, 1616?Date: 1654- Books
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[SōotomÍa (romanized form)], or, observations on the present manners of the English: briefly anatomizing the living by the dead. With an usefull detection of the mountebanks of both sexes / By Richard Whitlock.
Whitlock, Richard, 1615 or 1616-Date: 1654- Books
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The second volume of The British antidote to Caledonian poison: contains twenty-five of the most humorous satirical, political prints for the years 1762 and 63, viz. 26 The Bagshot Frolick 27 The Congress 28 The Caledonian Pacification 29 The Highland Seer 30 The Laird of the Boot 31 The Coach over-turn'd 32 The Scotch Hurdy-Gurdy 33 Gisbal and Bathsheba 34 We are all Come 35 Boot put to Flight 36 Without 37 Within 38 The Fishermen 39 Sawney in Office 40 The Times 41 The Good Ship, Old Engl. 42 The Scotch Cradle 43 Provision for the Convent 44 The Evacuation 45 A Hieroglyphic Letter 46 The Asses of Great-Brit. 47 The Mountebank 48 The Scotch Idol 49 Blocks for Hogarth's Wigs 50 Lyon in Boots To which is added, all the Poetical Poems, Essays, Songs, &c.
Date: [1764]- Books
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The English mountebank: or, a physical dispensatory, wherein is prescribed, many strange and excellent receits of Mr Marriot : the great eater of Grays-Inn: with the manner how he makes his cordial broaths, pills, purgatious [sic], julips, and vomits, to keep his body in temper, and free from surfeits. With sundry directions, 1 How to make his cordial broath. 2 His pills to appease hunger. 3 His strange purgation; never before practised by any doctor in England. 4 The manner and reason, why he swallows bullets & stones. 5 How he orders his bak'd meat, or rare dish on Sundays. 6 How to make his new fashion fish-broath. 7 How to make his sallet, for cooling of the bloud. 8 How to make his new dish, called a frigazee: the operation whereof, expells all sadness and melancholy.
Marriott, John, -1653Date: 1652- Books
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The Harangues, or speeches, of several celebrated quack-doctors, in town and country. Containing, 1. Dr Rock's harangue to his political patients in Covent-Garden. 2. Dr Rand's speech, in prose and verse. 3. The High German doctor's, and his English fool's harrangue, with the quack's invitation to his auditors, to buy his infallible packet, in humorous verse. 4. The horse-doctor's speech to the credulous mob. 5. T. Jones's harangue, the Yorkshire quack. 6. Alexander Bendo's speech to the gentlemen and ladies of Great Britain. 7. Jo. Hains's speech the High German doctor and astrologer in Brandipolis. 8. R. Wilmore's harangue in praise of his divine elixir. 9. Don Lopus's harangue to his patients at Madrid, with a brace of songs, translated from the Spanish by an impartial hand. Concluding with the character of a quack, several merry receipts, and three mountebank songs. By various hands.
Date: 1762- Books
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The British antidote to caledonian poison, vol. II. Contains twenty-six of the most humourous satirical political prints for those remarkable years 1762 and 1763, viz. 26 The bagshot frolick. 27 The congress. 28 The caledonian pacisication. 29 The highland eer. 30 The laird of the boot. 31 The voach over-turned. 32 The scotch hardy gurdy. 33 Gisbai and bethshoba. 34 We are all come. 35 Boot put to slight. 36, 37 Without and within. 38 The fisherman. 39 Sawney in office. 40 The times. 41 The good ship old England. 42 The scotch cradle. 43 Provision for the convent. 44 Evacuation. 45 A hieroglyphical letter. 46 The asses of Great Britain. 47 The mountebank. 48 The scotch idol. 49 Books for Hogarth's wigs. 50 Lion in boots. The sixth edition. To which now are added, howel's description of Scotland, and other essays, poems, &c.
Date: 1765- Books
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A Choice collection of curious relations. Containing, I. The fair lady of Norwich; or, The pleasant history of two friars, John and Richard, both of a famous Abbey in the city of Norwich, in the reign of King Henry the fifth. II. A letter sent in the year 1663, from Mr. Yleward, organist of Christ Church in Norwich, to the then Feast-Hayners of the Mayor's-Guild; with their answer. III. The good man and the good woman; or, The famous stocking-knitter from Helsdon-Hall. A sermon preached at the funeral of Mr. Proctor, minister of Gissing. IV. The horse-mountebank's oration. V. The travels and adventures of a shilling, from Queen Elizabeth's reign to King George the second's. VI. A cure for complements, unmannerly curiosity, and impertinence. VII. Marriage ceremonies of diverse nations in the world. VIII. An epilogue, spoke by Jo. Haines, in the habit of an horse-officer, mounted on an ass; and since spoke several times at the Play-House in Norwich.
Date: 1739- Books
Pharmacologia anti-empirica; or, a rational discourse of remedies both chymical and galenical ... Together with some remarks on the causes and cure of the gout, the universal use of the cortex ... and ... impostures of ... mountebanks / [Walter Harris].
Harris, Walter, 1647-1732Date: 1683- Archives and manuscripts
The Mock Doctor's Speech
Date: 18th centuryReference: MS.5326- Books
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Pharmacologia anti-empirica, or, A rational discourse of remedies both chymical and Galenical : wherein chymistry is impartially represented, the goodness of natural remedies vincidated, and the most celebrated preparation of art proved uncapable of curing diseases without a judicious and methodical administration : together with some remarks on the causes and cure of the gout, the universal use of the Cortex, or Jesuits powder, and the most notorious impostures of divers empiricks and mountebanks / by Walter Harris.
Harris, Walter, 1647-1732Date: 1683- Pictures
Hans Buling (?), an itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares with the aid of a monkey and a performer dressed as Harlequin. Engraving.
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Indian travelling entertainers with animals. Gouache painting.
Date: [1815?]Reference: 728564iPart of: Indian practitioners of trades, crafts, and professions. Gouache paintings, 18--.