The Harangues, or speeches, of several celebrated quack-doctors in town and country ... Concluding with the character of a quack, several merry receipts, and three mountebank songs / By various hands.

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1762
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The Harangues, or speeches, of several celebrated quack-doctors in town and country ... Concluding with the character of a quack, several merry receipts, and three mountebank songs / By various hands. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for J. Thomson ..., 1762.

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41 pages, 1 unnumbered page (last page blank) ; (12mo)

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ESTC T36003

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(from t. p.) 1. Containing 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 harangue, 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 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.

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