Medical, philosophical, and vulgar errors, of various kinds, considered and refuted / by John Jones.

Date:
1797
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    in the chirurgical cafes at Pimlico; who aflured me, that thofe wretches I had feen, were by way of decoy ducks, hired alter- nately to attend there and near the horfe- guards twice a week, at half-a-crown a piece, to pretend to be cured of fuch difeafes as they were inftrudfed to perfonify; and that the better drelTed people that came in coaches, and were fhewn occalionally as private patients up flairs, were hired at a crown each, exclufive of the coach. ' A well written book, of a variety of well attefted cafes of cures by Dr. Graham, by his Magnetical Eledrical Celeftial appa- ratus only, had a fimilar effed upon me, till, by his becoming religious, he very ho- neftly confeffed that it was all an impo- fition. Thefe inftances, as I had naturally a nar- row fwallow, and being no Roman Ca- tholic, have not been in the habit of credit- ing marvels, have given me an utter dif- relifli for marvellous cures performed, even by men of eminence, though attefted alfo by men in high ftations; infomuch that I find