Volume 1

A letter from the facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe [i.e. W. Wagstaffe] at Bath, to his loving brother the profound Greshamite, shewing that the scribendi cacoethes is a distemper arising from a redundancy of biliose salts / [William Wagstaffe].

  • Wagstaffe, William, 1685-1725
Date:
1719
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Credit: A letter from the facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe [i.e. W. Wagstaffe] at Bath, to his loving brother the profound Greshamite, shewing that the scribendi cacoethes is a distemper arising from a redundancy of biliose salts / [William Wagstaffe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mrl. t and terrible to the Patient ; but now a Vomit, elegantly fuper intended by your Vigilance and Conduct, appears with a Noble Apparatus, attended with a Variety of Equipage, and with Plumes of Feathers of the greateft Gaiety \ fo that the Ladies feem to chufe it as much for their Diver- fion, as for difperling the Colluctations of the Bile. And I cannot but think that if a Purge could be adminiftred with as much Decorum, it would be of admirable TJfe both to ourfelves and to the Patient. For the Attaining therefore this fo defirabld an End, I lhall publilh fpeedily a Treatife, dedicated toyour felf, wherein I propoie the Model of a Clofe-pol, in the Manner of a Spinffer, to open it felf, or to con- traft, according to the various Dimen- fions and Latitude of Human Buttocks. For it has been a General Millake in the Strufture of this Inftrument of Eafe, and in which the Joyner, I fuppofe, might be the only .Man consulted, to make the Ortfices of them all nearly equal in Diam¬ eter. I have contrived likewise that the Body lhall be placed in fuch a Pollute as to give the Diaphragm and Mufcles of the Abdomen the Liberty of afting without thofe Contortions of Countenance which fre¬ quently accompany that Exercife. I have added further foine proper Decorations