Essays on fashionable diseases. The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms. The clothing of invalids. Lady and gentlemen doctors. And on quacks and quackery ... With a dedication to Philip Thicknesse ... To which is added a dramatic dialogue ... / By Benjamin Goosequill and Peter Paragraph [pseuds. of James Makittrick Adair].

  • Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.
Date:
[1790?]
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Credit: Essays on fashionable diseases. The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms. The clothing of invalids. Lady and gentlemen doctors. And on quacks and quackery ... With a dedication to Philip Thicknesse ... To which is added a dramatic dialogue ... / By Benjamin Goosequill and Peter Paragraph [pseuds. of James Makittrick Adair]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A phyfician of London, now defervedly in great practice, allured me feveral years ago, that, with confiderable bufmefs, many years had elapfed, before his annual income was equal to Bool. This was, in lome meafure, to be attri- buted to a liberal plan he adopted of accom- modating his fees to the abilities of his patients; infomueh that, on a fair calcula- tion, partly from the fmallnefs of the fee, never or rarely exceeding half-a-guinea, and his gratis vifits, he did not receive more th :n half that lum on an average; and that, taking one patient with another, he did not receive more than one guinea for the whole of his attendance during a fit of illnefs. This gen- tleman has fince been amply rewarded for his humanity; and indeed, if we ccnfider the time and labour many phyficians bellow in attending hofpitals, difpenfaries, and other charitable inllitutions, and the many vifits they make gratis, the profeffion will be found not to merit the imputation of avarice and rapacity: though, as among all other orders of men, there may be, and are, exceptions. Fees *