The harangues or speeches of several celebrated quack-doctors in town and country [N17435]
- DMI number:
- 760
- Publication Date:
- 1750
- ESTC number:
- N17435
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW109610524
- Shelfmark:
- BOD Harding E 255 (1)
- Full Title:
- THE | Harangues, [i]or[/i] Speeches, | Of several celebrated | QUACK-DOCTORS, | IN | [i]TOWN[/i] and [i]COUNTRY[/i]. | Containing | [two columns] [col. 1] I. Dr. ROCK's Harangue to his | political Patients in [i]Covent- | Garden[/i]. | II. Dr RAND's Speech, in Prose | and Verse. | III. The [i]High German[/i] Doctor's, | and his [i]English[/i] Fool's Harangue, | with the Quack's Invitation to | his Auditors, to buy his infalli-| ble Packet, in humorous Verse. | IV. The Horse-Doctor's Speech | to the credulous Mob. | [illeg] T. JONES's Harangue, the [/col 1] | [col 2] [i]Yorkshire[/i] Quack. | VI. ALEXANDER BENDO's Speech | to the Gentlemen and Ladies | of [i]Great Britain[/i]. | VII. JO. HAINS's Speech, the | [i]High German[/i] Doctor and Astro- | loger in [i]Brandipolis[/i]. | VIII. R. WILMORE's Harangue, | in Praise of his Divine Elixir. | IX. Don LOPUS's Harangue to his | Patients at [i]Madrid[/i], with a Brace | of Songs, Translated from the | [i]Spanish[/i], by an impartial Hand. [/col 2] | [rule] | Concluding with the Character of a Quack, several merry | Receipts, and three Mountebank Songs. | [i]By[/i] VARIOUS HANDS. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for [i]J. Robinson[/i], at the [i]Golden-Lion[/i] in [i]Ludgate-| Street[/i]; and Sold at the Pamphlet-Shops in [i]London[/i] and | [i]Westminster[/i]. Price 6 [i]d[/i].
- Epigraph:
- [i]We come to cure whate'er Men feel, | Within, without, from Head to Heel, | We can Old Age to Youth restore, | And do a Thousand Wonders more.[/i]
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Price:
- 6 d
- Pagination:
- (not including plate) [4], [5]-48.
- Bibliographic details:
- Plates: Frontispiece.
- Comments:
- DATE: ESTC says 'no date; CBEL = [1762?] but Robinson operated at this address 1742-58 (Plomer)' CONTENTS: largely contains prose, with some verse items. Includes Rochester's Bendo speech.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Address 'To the Orator of Orators, and Puff-Master-General of Lincoln's-Inn-Fields' signed 'The Editor' [2pp.].
- Title:
- The harangues or speeches of several celebrated quack-doctors in town and country [T36003]
- Publication Date:
- 1762
- ESTC No:
- T36003
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Jacob Robinson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Here men of great sense
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- By Thomas Rands.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Rands
- First Line:
- See sirs see here a doctor rare
- Page No:
- p.15-16
- Poem Title:
- The Infallible Mountebank: Or, Quack Doctor.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Had old Hippocrates and Galen
- Page No:
- p.40
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- You that would last long list to my song
- Page No:
- p.42
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Is any deaf is any blind
- Page No:
- pp.46-47
- Poem Title:
- Mountebank Songs. Song I.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Maids of the chamber or of the kitchen
- Page No:
- pp.47-48
- Poem Title:
- Song II.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here's water to quench maiden fires
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- Song III.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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