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The Quacks of Old London
by C. J. S. Thompson
Barnes and Noble Books, New York, 1993, 356pp, HC.
[England 16-18C]
Chapters
- The Origin of the Quack-Doctor -- Quack-Doctors in Tudor Times
- Famous Quacks in the Time of the Stuarts
- Quack Astrologers and Fortune-Tellers
- Some Mountebanks and Their Zanies
- Notorious London Quacks and Their Remedies
- Foreign Quacks and New Diseases
- A Quack's Costume, Dr. Salmon and Some Others
- A Quack-Doctor and Ballad-Singer -- A High German Doctor and His Merry
Andrew
- Place for the Gentlewomen
- More Foreign Quacks
- The "Scurvy-Quacks"
- The "Unborn Doctors" -- A Quack Alchemist
- The Beauty Specialists
- The Plague Quacks and Others
- Jesuit's Bark -- A Company of Quacks
- An Elixir for Renewing Youth -- Old Quack Medicines
- Bagnios and Cuppers -- Virtues of Coffee and Tea
- Quacks Who Received Royal Patronage
- The Wits and the Quacks -- How the British Government Was Duped
- Three Great Quacks
- Quacks of Covent Garden and Piccadilly
- A Quack's Embalmed Wife
- Brodum, Solomon and Graham
- An Artist-Quack -- A Dancing-Master Quack
Illustrations
- A fragment of a hand bill (1525)
- The Attack on Dr. Lambe (from a woodcut, 1628)
- A Bill of Dr. Case (ca. 1672)
- Consulting the Astrologer (from a woodcut, 1670)
- An Astrologer's Bill
- Dr. James Tilburg (from a woodcut on his bill)
- Operating for Cataract (from a woodcut on a XVII Century bill)
- The Eminent Doctor of Physic out of Poland (from a woodcut on his bill)
- Venus with her Crown
- An Operation on the Eye (from a woodcut on a XVII Century)
- (Edward) Comport's Bill
- The Inventor of 'Pilula Salutiferens' (from a woodcut on the bill)
- 'The Turk's Head' (from the card of Wilcox the Cupper)