Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 948

-1721 Medicina flagellata; or, The doctor scarify'd. Printed for J. Bateman and J. Nicks 1721 xiv, 224 (misnumbered 214) pp. 18.3 cm.

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries quacks of every description flourished in London. Medicine still was more the pursuit of systems than the application of known principles of clinical pathology, so it is understandable that quacks were ready to undertake what the legitimate practitioner could not cure. The contents of this work, by an unknown author, are best explained by its subtitle: 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, of the power of a regimen. To which is added, a discovery of some remarkable errors in the late writings on the plague, by Dr. Mead, Quincey, Bradley, &c. With some useful and necessary rules to be observed in the time of that contagious distemper.

Cited references: Waller 6421

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