Mr. MYERSBACH sent for me to visit his wife in a little lodging he had in a shoemaker’s house, at No. 24, Rupert-street, Goodman’s-fields, in November 1773: he consulted me, as being himself totally unacquainted with medicine; and as I found him in distressed circumstances, I did not then demand any gratuity for my attendance; I knew he was trying various schemes to get bread, and particularly to get employment with Mr. Hill, starch-maker, of Bow, in Essex. This not succeeding, he made attempts of different kinds, till he fell into water-conjuring; I found lately, by the public papers, that a Dr. Myersbach had duped many families by this scheme, and gained a great deal of money: I sent to know if this Doctor was the same Mr. Myersbach, whose wife I had attended, and finding him so, I demanded payment of the medicines prescribed for his wife, which he complied with in the presence of Charles Wittik.
JOHAN TOENNIUS.
Mansell-street, Goodman’s-fields,
September 12, 1776.
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