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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    ■< 12> the Praftice : They are a Body of Gentlemen who know better things, remembring the Apof- tle’s Advice, to ufe a little Wine for their Stomach’s fake, and their often Infirmities. And therefore and hecaufe that they have not drawn Ten in his De¬ fence, and fince the Do&or, out of mere Con¬ tempt to himfelf, and (as it were) on purpofe to mortify and affront himfelf, has not as yet wrote any Anfwer to himfelf , I (hall, with all Humility, do my felf that Honour, againft all Op- pofers whatfoever, if it be to the very laft Drop of my Ink: And if there is any Perfon fo vain* glorious or hardy, as to anfwer this my unanfwe- rahle Anfwer and Defence, I (hall anfwer him by faying nothing at all in anfwer to him ^ which I know will vex him to the very Guts. In the Do&or’s Liquid Difcourfe, befides the Elegancy and Finenefs of Style, Loftinefs of Ex- preffion. Strength of Reafoning, and Depth of Learning ; there are many things worthy of no¬ tice. Indeed there are in the Book many things hard to be under food, fome that have no meaning at all, and others that have a* very good meanings but it is not to be come at without very deep Learning or Revelation. There are fome things in it that the Bo&or and every body under- ftands; and others that neither he, nor any body, but my felf, knows any thing of} and it is for that veryReafon, that I now flourifti my Pen in the Defence of Dr. Hancock and fair Water, and am -now juft beginning to begin. The Do&or is very careful that People ihould know he is no Phyfician, and often gives the Cau¬ tion ; which, altho it is a good Mark of the Doctor’s Integrity, yet I think it needlefs, becaufe whoever reads’the Do&or’s Book (if he has but half an Eye) will fee that GREAT TRUTH in every Page, and many other very momentous ones: