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

  • Charles Thompson
Date:
[1928]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The quacks of old London / by C.J.S. Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Princes and Prelates, Canons, Curates, Religios, Dukes, Noblemen and Burgesses, dabble without knowledge in dangerous surgical treatments and especially in the treatment of diseases of the eye, which is dangerous, difficult and fraudulent to that degree, that one seldom finds a surgeon who is capable and expert in those matters. The vulgar say of these religious and their like, that they have knowledge infused into them by the pure grace of the Creator.” Here again we have the association of religion and medicine which has survived to modern times.
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