Medico mastix; or, physic craft detected. A satirico didactic poem / [Anon].

  • Schomberg, R. (Ralph), 1714-1792.
Date:
1774
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medico mastix; or, physic craft detected. A satirico didactic poem / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In fpite of all your labor, all your {kill, You’ll find at laft—will prove—a broomftick ftilL There arc, the whole Galenic art who place (g) In the fignificance of dull grimace ; Others again in foppery of (how— This man aftedts the Sloven, that the Beau ; Some to Virtu, and Knick-knacks feem inclin’d, * Yet all is pompous fraud—to gull mankind. ’ Tis not the drefs, or confequential face, The Chariot rolling fwift from place to place, The blazing gem, or amber-headed cane (Thofe taudry trappings of th’empiric train) One fingle fpark of knowlege can difpenfe ; But Application join’d to manly Se?ife. Shame be to fuch—on vile deception bent; Not fo the man of worth and fair intent, (g ) Decipimur fpecie re&i With