Doctor Snellius as London Quack Exposed in Vilified Critique
A satirical pamphlet chronicles the rise and ruin of a self styled physician in 1770s England. It traces Dr Snellius from gulling the public in Suffolk to failing London lectures and a travellike wandering practice in Silent Street, exposing vanity ignorance and dubious medical claims.
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Bath
Felow
All Soul's College
Oxford
J. Wilkie
St. Paul's Churchyard
W. Frederick
S. Parker
G. Harris
Gloucester
R. Baldwin
Paternofter-row
Romeo
Julies
Cyrus
John Wheble
Woodfall
Charing-Cross
G. Riley
Curzon-street
Fair
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Royal Exchante
P. Shatwell
Adelphi
J. Godwin
Strand
Nemos Ftury
William Flackton
S. Thompson
St. Paul’s Church-yard
Tunbridge
F. Newbery
John Newbery
St. Paul's Church
W. Bayley
Cockspur-street
The Doctor’s Grandiose Medical Lectures Questioned
A letter from November 16 1771 mocks a Doctor famed for vanity and alleged cures. It derides his lectures on the art of physic and his claims of empirical advantage, urging readers to doubt his veracity and seek real evidence from those he claims to have treated.
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