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Quack Doctors.

Medicina Flagellata: or, the doctor scarifyíd. Laying open the vices of the Faculty, the insignificancy of a great part of their materia medica; with certain rules to discern the true physician from the emperick, and the useful medicine from the noxious and trading physick. With an essay on health, or the power of a regimen. To which is added, some useful and necessary rules to be observed in the time of that contagious distemper.

London: London: W. Meadows, 1727.,

181.26 €

Forest Books William Laywood

(Grantham, United Kingdom)

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Quack Doctors.
Publishers
London: London: W. Meadows, 1727.
Keyword
MEDICINE MEDICAL BOOKS QUACK DOCTORS

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Second edition, 8vo, xiv, 224pp., [224 numbered 214 in error], additional title with engraved vignette, contemporary calf, rubbed, boards detached. An anonymous satire, showing ìthat quacks were ready to undertake what the legitimate practitioner could not cure.îóHeirs of Hippocrates, 594. Provenance: Ink signature of George Clubley, 1825, with MS notes to front paste-down. Blake, p. 297; Waller, 6421; Wellcome IV, p. 101.
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