TIBULLUS.
He fell to juggle, cant, and cheat . . .
For as those fowls that live in water
Are never wet, he did but smatter;
Whate'er he labour'd to appear,
His understanding still was clear.
A paltry wretch he had, half starved,
That him in place of zany served.
BUTLER, Hudibras.
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PROFESSIONS--PHYSIC.
The Worth and Excellence of the true Physician--Merit, not the sole
Cause of Success--Modes of advancing Reputation--Motives of medical
Men for publishing their Works--The great Evil of Quackery--Present
State of advertising Quacks--Their Hazard--Some fail, and why--
Causes of Success--How Men of understanding are prevailed upon to
have recourse to Empirics, and to permit their Names to be
advertised--Evils of Quackery: to nervous Females;
to Youth; to Infants--History of an advertising Empiric, &c.
NEXT, to a graver tribe we turn our view,
And yield the praise to worth and science due,
But this with serious words and sober style,
For these are friends with whom we seldom smile.
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