. The doctor's leisure hour; facts and fancies of interest to the doctor and his patient;. STIAN SCIENCE 233 NOT AN ENTHUSIAST Faith Doctor — « Now, my dear sir, tell me justhow you feel.** Impatient patient (who has stared the doctor inthe eye steadily for hours, in a vain endeavor to forget his pain) — « I feel like a d d fool; whats the bill ?» AN ATTRACTION Isaacs — ?;r —Well, I do; I cured mj little boy ofthe cigarette habit that way. THE QUACK The patient must minister to physic to the dogs. — Shakespeare, « Macbeth,* v, 3. QUACKS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. HE quacks of the
. The doctor's leisure hour; facts and fancies of interest to the doctor and his patient;. STIAN SCIENCE 233 NOT AN ENTHUSIAST Faith Doctor — « Now, my dear sir, tell me justhow you feel.** Impatient patient (who has stared the doctor inthe eye steadily for hours, in a vain endeavor to forget his pain) — « I feel like a d d fool; whats the bill ?» AN ATTRACTION Isaacs — ?;r —Well, I do; I cured mj little boy ofthe cigarette habit that way. THE QUACK The patient must minister to physic to the dogs. — Shakespeare, « Macbeth,* v, 3. QUACKS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. HE quacks of the present day aresufficiently numerous, and meetwith enough success to cause as-tonishment to every thinking per-son; but, compared with theirpredecessors of the eighteenthcentury, they pale into insignifi-cance. It may not be uninterest-ing to the reader to have brought before him afew of the men who treated upon the credulity ofour forefathers in the days of Anne and the threeGeorges, the days of Addison, Pope, and we consider their numbers, their ignorance,and the impudence of their pretensions, we find italmost impossible to understand the success theymet with, and the way they were spoken of andpatronized by the highest in the land. Cobblers,tinkers, footmen, and tailors (some not able to readtheir own advertisements), assumed the title of doc-tor, and pretended to be able to cure every knowndisease. They advertised particulars of their wonder-ful cures, and by the use of scraps of Latin ordoggerel rhymes, or by claiming to be - seventhson of a seventh
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