Flagellum: or, a dry answer to Dr. Hancock's wonderfully comical liquid book, which he merrily calls Febrifugum magnum, or common water the best cure for fevers ... (a book proved ... to be wrote when the Doctor was asleep) / by Gabriel John.

  • John, Gabriel.
Date:
1723
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Credit: Flagellum: or, a dry answer to Dr. Hancock's wonderfully comical liquid book, which he merrily calls Febrifugum magnum, or common water the best cure for fevers ... (a book proved ... to be wrote when the Doctor was asleep) / by Gabriel John. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    G E LLU M: O R, A Dry ANSWER T O Dr. H a n c o c k s wonderfulfy-Co- mical Liquid Book, which he merrily calls Febrifugum Magnum, or common Water the belt Cure for Fevers, &c. (a Book proved beyond Contradiction, td be wrote when the DoCtdr was alleep.) WHEREIN Sot only many oblcure Paflages, in that great Performance (which neither the Doctor nor any body elfe underfiood the meaning of) are ironi¬ cal}7 explain'd to the meaneft Capacity; but the life and Excellency of cold Water and ftewed Prunes, is alfo clear’d up. j Very ft to be bound up with the Doctor’s Book. ii. - mi qmmmmm — —a—orrMft.'r' j Who ever faw another fuch Divine, That drank cold Water, when he might have Wine ? ^he Second Edition: With a Poflfcript, con¬ taining a few merry Reflexions on a late bombaflick Pamphlet, in Defence of the DoXor’s Book, wrote by one Faylor, the firfl-born of all the Sons of Stupidity, and Bull-Rider to the Bear-Garden. * • ————e—————b——^mmmmm— Jy Gabriel John, a feventh Son, and ‘Teacher of the occult Sciences in Torkjhire. . O N D O N : Printed, and Sold by T h o. Warner at the 4