The quacks of old London / by C.J.S. Thompson.

  • Thompson, C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel), 1862-1943.
Date:
[1928]
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Credit: The quacks of old London / by C.J.S. Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ Are you Sick, Lame, Blind, Deaf, Dumb, come away, To this skilful Doctor and do not stay. Try Willmore, a cure you will thereby, For Honest dealing is his Policy ; And when you have done, pray prove so kind, Respond your Candid censure as you find.” He expresses himself ready to “ Cup you after the German manner, Purge you after the English manner, or Sweat you after the Turkish manner. You may be neatly blooded, your teeth or stumps dexterously drawn, have Issues curiously made, and Setons put in your neck, safely, for “ sixpence a piece and welcome.” “ THE OLD MADE YOUNG,” is the heading of a bill addressed to those who desire to make their lives happy and long. “I will not pretend,” said the writer, “that I have known my great Restorer cure any distemper, excepting one, and such a one, as I believe never was helped by any medicine but this, that is to say in LOVE AFFAIRS both in OLD MEN AND WOMEN. “ This I suppose many will laugh at, and few will believe, but it has that miraculous operation that it renders old men and women of three or four score, as youthful as those of twenty or thirty years of age. “ Thus it is an extraordinary Prolonger of Life and may be had at my house in Nevill’s Alley in Fetter-lane.” Another curious character was George Fairclough, a quack oculist, who at one time had been blind himself. According to his bill, “ he hath given such eminent