[Rarebooks] FS: On medical quackery & "cures" for the plague. London: 1721

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(MEDICINE) MEDICINA FLAGELLATA: OR, THE DOCTOR SCARIFY’D. Laying Open the 
Vices of the Faculty, the Insignificancy of a Great Part of Their Materia Medica; 
with Certain Rules to Discern the True Physician from the Emperick… With an 
Essay on Health… To Which Is Added, a Discovery of Some Remarkable Errors in 
the Late Writings on the Plague… and Necessary Rules to Be Observed in the Time 
of That Contagious Distemper. London: Printed for J. Bateman, and J. Nicks. 
1721. First edition. xiv,224pp. With an added (partially) engraved title. Cont. 
speckled calf, expertly rebacked, red morocco spine label. Bookplate on front 
pastedown.     $750.00 (trade discount allowed)
A substantial work on 17th & early 18th century quackery. It also exposes the 
ineffectualness of contemporary ways to fight the plague (i.e. street fires, 
loud explosions, and smoking tobacco). Blake (18th cent. N.L.M.) p. 297.

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