The Mock Doctor's Speech

'The Mock Doctor's Speech to the Credulous Mob in Covent Garden. I Waltho, Van Claturbank, High German Doctor and Dentifricator ... and return Re infecta.' Satire on the claims of a London mountebank.

18th century

2 ff. 320 × 200 mm. With typewritten transcript, c. 1913.

Purchased from Dr W Lisle Goodridge, 1913.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).