The modern quack : or medicinal impostor. In three parts. With a supplement, displaying the present set of pretenders to clap-curing, giving Judgment upon Urine, &c. wherein their Frauds and Abuses are laid open; Rules also to know, and Cautions against them. And, for the farther security of the sick of any sort, a catalogue is annexed of all the members of the Royal College of Physicians, residing in Town, with the Places of their several Abodes or Habitations. The second edition. To which, as related to the same Subject, are added by another hand, Some remarks upon Dr. Hancock's treatise, which he entitles Febrifugum magnum: Or Cold Water the best Cure for Fevers. In a letter to the author.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

London physician.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quacks and quackery--Early works to 1800.

Quacks and quackery.

Therapeutics--Early works to 1800.

Therapeutics.

Physical Description:

36 unnumbered pages,206 pages ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Thomas Warner, at the Black-Boy in Pater-Roster-Row, 1724.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

The first edition of 1718 is attributed to: 'A London physician'.

Sometimes attributed to Daniel Turner.

A reissue of the first edition, with a cancel titlepage, sig.M (pp.153-156) reset and weith the addition of pp.157-206.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T93455.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.