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Smugglers advertise estate and medical quack cures in Suffolk and London
The notice offers a let of a brick house in Little Thurlow Suffolk with 14 acres, stables, and garden, for a small family, near New Market and London. Also advertised are a black gelding missing from Deptford, with rewards offered, and a batch of medical quack remedies and beauty products from various London sellers, including Quintessence, Royal Chymical Watch-Balls, and Wright’s Diuretick tincture, with claimed cures for blindness, the eye, the Scurvy, and venereal issues. Prices and locations are listed for Mrs Castanoura, Mr Allcroft, Mrs Giles, and Dr Wright, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Thurlow
Suffolk
New Market
London
Simon Sherlock
Globe Tavern
Hatton Garden
Zarrs
Deptford
Job Geare
Red Cross
Southwark
Bars
T. Clarke
Bellaf
Signior
Hampton Court
Queen Anne
Silisbury Street
Strand
Thames
Lambert
Glover
Alfcroft
Bluecoat
Royal Exchange
Cornhil
Giles
Millen
Hercules Pillars Alley
Allcroft
A. Harman
Haydon Square
Wright