[Rarebooks] FS: Early 18th century attack on medical quackery

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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.