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body is necessary pretended success. Mr. Long (or his friends this kind of combustion. 7. for him) has pretended to cure confirmed Water, instead of extinguishing the flame, consumption, by a means which others do appears to give it more activity; and when not possess; he exacts secrecy from his pathe flame has disappeared, the combustion tients, before they place themselves under published, or connived proceeds within. 8. They occur more fre- his care ; and he has The Literary Gazette) quentlyin winter than in summer. 9. The ’i at the publication (in cure of general combustions has never been i of assumed cures of consumption, which are effected; only of partial ones. 10. Those not fair cases of that disease ; and when a to whom it has happened have experienced true case of tuberculated consumption has 11. It been put under his superintendence, he has a sensation of strong internal heat. is suddenly developed, and consumes the I,failed. These are facts which Mr. Long requires of me—ex uno disce omnes; I mean body in a few hours. 12. Those which are not reached by the fire are affect- to say, Sir, that Mr. Long, as far as the presence of an inflamed to commence
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13. A putrid degeneration faculty has been able to learn, possesses no which causes gangrene. 14. The better means of curing phthisis, than any residue of this combustion is composed of well educated practitioner, nor has he shown greasy cinders and an unctuous fatty matter, by his cases, that he possesses even these both having a fetid odour, which is per- means. Every practitioner knows, that ceived at a great distance." symptoms of debility and emaciation often occur in bronchitis and chronic catarrh, which are designated by the world, cases of QUACKERY. decline or consumption, and there are not wanting dishonourable men who will conTo the Editor of THE LANCET. firm such opinion, and designedly embrace SIR,—In consequence of my belonging to such an opportunity of pretending to cure a Society, to the members of which the as consumption, what they know to be a medical periodicals are sent in rotation, I did very different disease. If Mr. Long wishes not happen to see the communication you to avoid the imputation of such conduct, he received from Mr. St. John Long, (in your will no longer lock up himself and his sysNumber for 21st of March,) in reference to tem with his patients, but will follow the my last letter to you, until three weeks after example of Dr. Beddoes, with respect to its publication, or I should have made an cow-vapour and gas; of Dr. Jenner, with earlier reply; but, perhaps, it is not now too regard to tartar emetic ointment; and of late for me to make some remarks on it. Sir A. Crichton, in reference to tar-vapour ; Mr. Long, in the true spirit of quackery, he will let his system have the fair trial to seizes the opportunityIhave given him, to which practitioners throughout the king. which his patients and dom will instantly submit it. He says he puff off the their friends entertain of him; I do not sup- wants no favour, but " cheerfully and fearpose that Mr. Long would be so impolitic, lessly challenges the impartial and honouras to be otherwise than kind to his patients ; able investigation of the public and the it is a part of the system. Talk of his mode faculty." We wait for the opportunity; of treatment prolonging life, in the opinion let him give it to us, and then we shall see of friends! why, Sir, we have a man here whether his assertions are worthy of conwho will beat him hollow in that respect, as sideration ; if they be, he may be assured he may see by examining any number of that he will gain more by a fair and honourThe Devonport Telegraph and Plymouth able celebrity, than he can hope to acquire Chronicle, for the case of one Hallett, a by means which quackery has always adoptself-dubbed Doctor, who cures every thing. ed. He talks of " ungentlemanly remarks;" Mr. Long ascribes the diarrhoea to the pa- why, the man who, for the sake of filthp tient having gone out on a wet day. It needs lucre, or an ephemeral reputation, conceals no ghost to tell us that diarrhoea, in the a remedy for one of the most fatal diseases latter stages of true phthisis, will generally that we are acquainted with, deserves the come on, whether the patient is out of doors execration of every honourable mind ; leavor in bed; this is something like an unsuc- ing out of the question the moral responsicessful chess-player, who, instead of ac- bility he incurs, by withholding a mode of knowledging his own want of skill, ascribes cure which (if beneficial’!) might be applied his loss to some troublesome fellow looking to the relief of human suffering throughout over him. Mr. Long must not, Sir, by the country. If Mr. Long dare to divulge talking of the gratitude of his friends, or the secret, I have no doubt it will turn out amiable qualities of the young man alluded be just as efficacious as the infallible to, (qualities which I well knew, long be- earth-bathiug remedy of Dr. 6 rabam, or the fure Mr. Long had any thing to do with beef steaks and porter of Dr. Stewart. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, him,) he must not, I say, seek thus to shift from himself the remarks which refer to his Plymouth, April 14, 1329. M. D.
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body is necessary pretended success. Mr. Long (or his friends this kind of combustion. 7. for him) has pretended to cure confirmed Water, instead of extinguishing the flame, consumption, by a means which others do appears to give it more activity; and when not possess; he exacts secrecy from his pathe flame has disappeared, the combustion tients, before they place themselves under published, or connived proceeds within. 8. They occur more fre- his care ; and he has The Literary Gazette) quentlyin winter than in summer. 9. The ’i at the publication (in cure of general combustions has never been i of assumed cures of consumption, which are effected; only of partial ones. 10. Those not fair cases of that disease ; and when a to whom it has happened have experienced true case of tuberculated consumption has 11. It been put under his superintendence, he has a sensation of strong internal heat. is suddenly developed, and consumes the I,failed. These are facts which Mr. Long requires of me—ex uno disce omnes; I mean body in a few hours. 12. Those which are not reached by the fire are affect- to say, Sir, that Mr. Long, as far as the presence of an inflamed to commence
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13. A putrid degeneration faculty has been able to learn, possesses no which causes gangrene. 14. The better means of curing phthisis, than any residue of this combustion is composed of well educated practitioner, nor has he shown greasy cinders and an unctuous fatty matter, by his cases, that he possesses even these both having a fetid odour, which is per- means. Every practitioner knows, that ceived at a great distance." symptoms of debility and emaciation often occur in bronchitis and chronic catarrh, which are designated by the world, cases of QUACKERY. decline or consumption, and there are not wanting dishonourable men who will conTo the Editor of THE LANCET. firm such opinion, and designedly embrace SIR,—In consequence of my belonging to such an opportunity of pretending to cure a Society, to the members of which the as consumption, what they know to be a medical periodicals are sent in rotation, I did very different disease. If Mr. Long wishes not happen to see the communication you to avoid the imputation of such conduct, he received from Mr. St. John Long, (in your will no longer lock up himself and his sysNumber for 21st of March,) in reference to tem with his patients, but will follow the my last letter to you, until three weeks after example of Dr. Beddoes, with respect to its publication, or I should have made an cow-vapour and gas; of Dr. Jenner, with earlier reply; but, perhaps, it is not now too regard to tartar emetic ointment; and of late for me to make some remarks on it. Sir A. Crichton, in reference to tar-vapour ; Mr. Long, in the true spirit of quackery, he will let his system have the fair trial to seizes the opportunityIhave given him, to which practitioners throughout the king. which his patients and dom will instantly submit it. He says he puff off the their friends entertain of him; I do not sup- wants no favour, but " cheerfully and fearpose that Mr. Long would be so impolitic, lessly challenges the impartial and honouras to be otherwise than kind to his patients ; able investigation of the public and the it is a part of the system. Talk of his mode faculty." We wait for the opportunity; of treatment prolonging life, in the opinion let him give it to us, and then we shall see of friends! why, Sir, we have a man here whether his assertions are worthy of conwho will beat him hollow in that respect, as sideration ; if they be, he may be assured he may see by examining any number of that he will gain more by a fair and honourThe Devonport Telegraph and Plymouth able celebrity, than he can hope to acquire Chronicle, for the case of one Hallett, a by means which quackery has always adoptself-dubbed Doctor, who cures every thing. ed. He talks of " ungentlemanly remarks;" Mr. Long ascribes the diarrhoea to the pa- why, the man who, for the sake of filthp tient having gone out on a wet day. It needs lucre, or an ephemeral reputation, conceals no ghost to tell us that diarrhoea, in the a remedy for one of the most fatal diseases latter stages of true phthisis, will generally that we are acquainted with, deserves the come on, whether the patient is out of doors execration of every honourable mind ; leavor in bed; this is something like an unsuc- ing out of the question the moral responsicessful chess-player, who, instead of ac- bility he incurs, by withholding a mode of knowledging his own want of skill, ascribes cure which (if beneficial’!) might be applied his loss to some troublesome fellow looking to the relief of human suffering throughout over him. Mr. Long must not, Sir, by the country. If Mr. Long dare to divulge talking of the gratitude of his friends, or the secret, I have no doubt it will turn out amiable qualities of the young man alluded be just as efficacious as the infallible to, (qualities which I well knew, long be- earth-bathiug remedy of Dr. 6 rabam, or the fure Mr. Long had any thing to do with beef steaks and porter of Dr. Stewart. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, him,) he must not, I say, seek thus to shift from himself the remarks which refer to his Plymouth, April 14, 1329. M. D.
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