A letter from the facetious doctor Andrew Tripe [i.e. W. Wagstaffe], at Bath, to the venerable Nestor Ironside. With an account of the reception Mr. Ironside's late present of a Guardian, met with from the worshipful Mr. Mayor, and other substantial inhabitants of that ancient city. To which is added, a prescription from the doctor, by way of a postscript, exactly suited to his distemper / [William Wagstaffe].

  • Wagstaffe, William, 1685-1725
Date:
1714
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Credit: A letter from the facetious doctor Andrew Tripe [i.e. W. Wagstaffe], at Bath, to the venerable Nestor Ironside. With an account of the reception Mr. Ironside's late present of a Guardian, met with from the worshipful Mr. Mayor, and other substantial inhabitants of that ancient city. To which is added, a prescription from the doctor, by way of a postscript, exactly suited to his distemper / [William Wagstaffe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ( 21 ) him for one of chafe old Wits, who are naturally very coftive, fuch as 1 have often met with in the Courfe of my Pra£tice} for befides his being iubjeft to a Fijiula and Flux of the hemorrhoids, the Sphin- £ter of the Anus was brokewith the ini* moderate JJfe of Suppojitories, An Bu- moyifi he was indeed, ’us true, and fome- what too tenacious of his own Opinion; but fetting that afide, I don't know I have met with a Man of late Years, which fee nr d to be more entertaining and inbffen- five Convention > efpecially, fays i, in the back Room at Buttons. I told them, how you had feen King Harry, the laft of that Name, in Hanging- Sleeves $ of your fir It Appearance in \the Commonwealth of Learning, about March laft5 and how at thefe Years you had confecrated your Studies to the Service of the Ladies : In fliort, Sir, I conceal’d no¬ thing that would tend to your Advantage, or take off the Calumnies that I was eon- feious were the inhofpitable Endeavours of wicked Men to blacken you; and I now rrrnft beg your Leave to proceed re¬ gularly, and to knot the Thread of my Sto¬ ry where I broke it off in the Begining. B 5 Mr*