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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    ( 55 ) With his Pen, yet I honour him as a Minifter* a Gentleman, and a Scholar, and believe he has more fenfe than to employ fuch a Buffie-head Thick-fcull as Tom, for a Champion, if he want¬ ed any. But Tom fays the DoBor did not know of ^a§e it, direElly nor indirectly, that is, he did not know it direElly nor obliquely ; neither upon a fir ait Line nor a Curve. But Tom not content with this, fays, / never in all my Life heard from him, or TO MY K NO IVL EDGE faw hi?n, or he me, that I KNOW OF*— Stupendous this! To his Knowledge he never did, that he knows of! — or to his Knowledge he knows nothing of it! —— or he does not know it, according to his Know- Hedge ! -or according to his Knowledge, fo far as it is knowable, honeft Tom knows nothing at all about the Matter. InTom’s Epiftle, he fays, Dr. Gardner has RI-^* 4® k 9* VALED Death it felf! What he means by it is aMyftery. But I can find no fuch Word as Ri¬ valed, and what mufl we do in this Caf e? WThy rruly Rivaled is Rivaled, &c* But now! nowr! le fays Dr. Gardner flogs the College Hip and Thigh ^a2e 5* ike Sons of Belial^-and has bafled them foundly. 3oorTom! I thought flogging had been apply’d o the place behind the Hip, and above the Thigh, tad that the Daughters of Belial perform’d it up- in the Sons of Impotence-and by the Word Rafting, one wrould think that Tom wras either a {oafling Cook or a Taylor, or perhaps a Tapfler, for refently he fays that de Foe’s Ink-Barrel is at oop, his Brain fuperannuated and dreggy.-*.. I uft confefs that thefe are all Notes above Eta* ut he who formerly was the Terror of the Children of te Mufes, (the Darling, I fuppofe he means, if \ has any meaning) may be now dealt with by any Y Apple-woman : Witnefs the Infolence of Tom hylor! who is not worthy to carry de Foe’s Pen