Medical Cautions 1787 - Extracts
Page 81
... MEYERSBACH,* who,
availing himself of the credulity and cullibility of
the good people of this kingdom, has
acquired a fortune equal to that of a German
prince, offered himself as a rough-rider to a
riding-house in London, but being rejected,
commenced doctor. ...
*The ignorance and effrontery of this fellow has been
properly exposed by Dr. LETTSOM.
Page 96
... The wife of a respectable magistrate of the
city of London, and my paricular friend,
was destroyed by the consummate ignorance
of MEYERSBACH; and there is reason to
believe that the valuable life of the husband
was shortened by the same means.
Medical cautions; chiefly for the consideration of invalids. Containing
essays on fashionable diseases ... The second edition. To which are now
added, Appendix I. ... Appendix II. ... By James Makittrick Adair, ...
Bath, 1787.
Source: Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
Gale Document Number: CW3306983726