More than twenty years ago, a very respectable and amiable woman, the wife of an intimate friend of mine, having been destroyed by the gross ignorance of one Myersback, a German quack, I was induced, partly from resentment, partly from a sense of duty to the public, to make some remarks on this miscreant race. I therefore subjoin from the third edition of a Treatise published many years ago, some extracts, to testify, at the close of a long life, against these pests of society, under the following heads. ....
Source: Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Document Number: CW3310820388