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Article THOUGHTS ON QUACKS OF ALL DENOMINATIONS. ← Page 2 of 3 →
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Thoughts On Quacks Of All Denominations.
this Quack , and gave him the preference to the Marischal de "Villars : " The latter , " said he , " kills men ; the former prolongs their ex'' istence . " At length , it was discovered that Villars' medicine was composed chiefly of river water . His practice was now at an end . Men had recourse to other Quacks . Villars was certainty of no disservice to- his patientsand can onl
; y he reproached with selling the water of the Seine at too high a price . He excited men to temperance , and in this respect was infinitely superior to the apothecary Arnoud , who filled Europe with his nostrums for the apoplexy , without recommending- the practice of any one virtue . I knew at London a physician of the name of Brown , who had
practised at Barbadoes . ' He had a sugar-work and negroes ; and having been robbed of a considerable ' sum , he called together his slaves . " My friends , " said he , " the great Serpent appeared to me during the night , and told me , that the person who stole my money should , at this instant , have a parrot ' s feather at the point of his nose . " The thief immediatelput his hand to his nose . " It is "
y you , " cried the Master , " that robbed me ; the great Serpent has just now told ni ' e so . " By this method the physician recovered his raoney . This piece of quackery is not to be condemned ; but , in order to practice it , one must have to do with negroes . Scipio , the first Africanus , a man in other respects so different from DrBrownpersuaded his soldiers that he was directed and inspired
. , "by the Gods . This piece of fraud had been long and successfully practised . Can we blame Scipio for having recourse to it ? There is not , perhaps , a person who does greater honour to the Roman Republic ; but how came it , let me ask , that the Gods inspired him not to give in his accounts ?
' Numa acted better . He had a band of robbers to civilize , and a Senate that constituted the most intractable part of them . Had he proposed his laws to the assembled tribes , he would have met with a thousand difficulties frorn the assassins of his predecessor , He adopt- ; ed a different method . He addressed himself to the Goddess Ageria , who gave him a code , sanctified with divine authority . What was the consequence ? He was submitted to without oppositionand
, reigned happily . His intentions were admirable , and his quackery had in view the public good ; but if one of his enemies had disclosed his artifice , and said , " Let us punish an impostor , who prostitutes the name of the Gods to deceive mankind , " fie would have undergone the fate of Romulus . It is probable that Numa concerted his measures with great
prudence , and deceived the Romans , with a view to their advantage , with , 5 m address , suited to the time , the place , and the genius of that people . Mahomet was twenty times on the point of miscarrying ; but , at length , he succeeded with the inhabitants of Medina , and was believed to be the intimate friend of the Angel Gabriel . At present , should any oiie announce lumself at Constantinople to . be the favourite of thg
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Thoughts On Quacks Of All Denominations.
this Quack , and gave him the preference to the Marischal de "Villars : " The latter , " said he , " kills men ; the former prolongs their ex'' istence . " At length , it was discovered that Villars' medicine was composed chiefly of river water . His practice was now at an end . Men had recourse to other Quacks . Villars was certainty of no disservice to- his patientsand can onl
; y he reproached with selling the water of the Seine at too high a price . He excited men to temperance , and in this respect was infinitely superior to the apothecary Arnoud , who filled Europe with his nostrums for the apoplexy , without recommending- the practice of any one virtue . I knew at London a physician of the name of Brown , who had
practised at Barbadoes . ' He had a sugar-work and negroes ; and having been robbed of a considerable ' sum , he called together his slaves . " My friends , " said he , " the great Serpent appeared to me during the night , and told me , that the person who stole my money should , at this instant , have a parrot ' s feather at the point of his nose . " The thief immediatelput his hand to his nose . " It is "
y you , " cried the Master , " that robbed me ; the great Serpent has just now told ni ' e so . " By this method the physician recovered his raoney . This piece of quackery is not to be condemned ; but , in order to practice it , one must have to do with negroes . Scipio , the first Africanus , a man in other respects so different from DrBrownpersuaded his soldiers that he was directed and inspired
. , "by the Gods . This piece of fraud had been long and successfully practised . Can we blame Scipio for having recourse to it ? There is not , perhaps , a person who does greater honour to the Roman Republic ; but how came it , let me ask , that the Gods inspired him not to give in his accounts ?
' Numa acted better . He had a band of robbers to civilize , and a Senate that constituted the most intractable part of them . Had he proposed his laws to the assembled tribes , he would have met with a thousand difficulties frorn the assassins of his predecessor , He adopt- ; ed a different method . He addressed himself to the Goddess Ageria , who gave him a code , sanctified with divine authority . What was the consequence ? He was submitted to without oppositionand
, reigned happily . His intentions were admirable , and his quackery had in view the public good ; but if one of his enemies had disclosed his artifice , and said , " Let us punish an impostor , who prostitutes the name of the Gods to deceive mankind , " fie would have undergone the fate of Romulus . It is probable that Numa concerted his measures with great
prudence , and deceived the Romans , with a view to their advantage , with , 5 m address , suited to the time , the place , and the genius of that people . Mahomet was twenty times on the point of miscarrying ; but , at length , he succeeded with the inhabitants of Medina , and was believed to be the intimate friend of the Angel Gabriel . At present , should any oiie announce lumself at Constantinople to . be the favourite of thg