An essay in favour of such public remedies, as are usually distinguished by the name of quack medicines; : wherein the objections hitherto made against them are fully answered, and their virtues set forth in a proper light. / By a country gentleman, formerly a practitioner in the science of physic.

Date:
[1773?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay in favour of such public remedies, as are usually distinguished by the name of quack medicines; : wherein the objections hitherto made against them are fully answered, and their virtues set forth in a proper light. / By a country gentleman, formerly a practitioner in the science of physic. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    E S S A V IN FAVOUR OF PUBLIC MEDICINES. ^ \ EVER, perhaps, was there anv age* )8C>V<^<G0£ . N <0g( wherein the preparers and venders of medicines were fo numerous as at prc- r , . .. . - lent:—the preis now daily teems with their productions; the news-papers are crowded with their lifts of cures; and we are perpetually hearing of fome thankful perfon, who is fending forth his gratitude in print, for having been re- ftored to health from a dangerous difeafe, and mi- raculoufly refcued from the jaws of death, by tinftures, powders, pills, or drops, prepared by thefe advertifers. Their effays, treatifes, and difiertations, on the various diforders incident to the human frame, have been purchafed with B avidity, » „ \ •