Volume 2

Observations preparatory to the use of Dr. Myersbach's medicines: in which the efficacy of certain German prescriptions is ascertained, by facts and experience / [Anon].

  • John Coakley Lettsom
Date:
1776
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Credit: Observations preparatory to the use of Dr. Myersbach's medicines: in which the efficacy of certain German prescriptions is ascertained, by facts and experience / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I wifh only to appeal to the fober fenfe of the pub-lic, how far I have lupported the character of an honeft man, and of a confcientious phyfl- cian. f t % I am fenfible that what I have written can¬ not affefl: the independence of Dr. Myersbach, who has, as I am well informed, already made 3 princely fortune, which probably he will loori return to Germany to enjoy, with many a hearty laugh at Englifh credulity: happy would it be for numerous individuals, if their implicit confidence fhould not deferve commif- feration more than redicule J •* * * , ’ ~ i ‘' ■* v i j The reputation of Ailhaud’s^ Powders is recent in every perfon’s memory ; fo rapid once was their fale, that the vender was foon enabled to purchafe three baronies, though at the ex¬ pence of many deluded vi&ims, as the experi¬ ence of the celebrated Dr. Tissot fully evinces, with whofe remarks I fhall conclude this performance,- * •••*., “ Fortunately for the human fpeeies, but few noftrums have attained an equal reputation “ with the Powders of Ailhapd, an inhabitant 6C of Aix, in Provence, and unworthy the name “ of a Phyfician ; who has overrun Europe for *c fome years paft with a violent purge, the re* membfanco * • i *r * * * t4 ’ . *J‘ f Now Baron Ai^haup,