Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked: Disease and Death in the Pot and BottleAnonymous
Science
Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked: Disease and Death in the Pot and Bottle
Anonymous
Drug adulteration; Food adulteration and inspection
that, “Even among the regularly bred physicians accident will often
accomplish what merit strives for in vain; and those coincidences of
circumstances which frequently elevate one man and depress another in
the medical art, are more the production of what is called chance, than
from any extension of mind, or any peculiar tact or skill in the art of
intellectual combinations.”
FOOTNOTES:
[M] The remarks of the learned editors of the Monthly Gazette of
Health, Nos. 160 and 162, are so much to the purpose, and so deserving
of diffusion among all ranks and classes of the community, on the
exhibition of the jew pedlars, the “_groundly learned physicians_,”
the “_Doctors_” J. and C. Jordan, “_physicians_ to the West London
Medical Establishment,” and “proprietors of the _celebrated_ Balsam
of Rackasiri,” and the _celebrated_ “Salutary Detersive Drops,” as
the vagabonds impudently and unblushingly style themselves and their
nostrums; and their redoubtable champion “Mr. _Counsellor_ Bluster,”
that I cannot do a greater service to the cause of truth and honesty
and the discomfiture of roguery of all descriptions, than to refer my
readers to those numbers of that work.
[N] These “Hebrew” Jewish knaves having at length been driven from
their strong-hold of delusion, and finding their trade of imposture in
the “balsam” rapidly declining through the patriotic exertions of “the
heroic Miss May” and the Editors of the Monthly Gazette of Health, have
had recourse to a new source of fraud and villainy, “the celebrated
Salutary Detersive Drops”—and as the vermin have the unblushing
audacity to designate their filth—a “most _important discovery_, which,
by _long study_, _deep research_, and at _great expence_, they have,
_fortunately_ for the human race, brought to a degree of perfection
which ASTONISHES themselves!!!” and which “is a _certain_ and _speedy
cure_ for _all_ the most distressing diseases to which human nature is
heir,” when administered “by _their superior skill_ and _judgment_”
and sanctioned “by _their high character and situation in life_!!” And
the IMPIOUS and BLASPHEMOUS wretches invoke the Great God of Nature
“that HE who has the power of doing all things” may FURTHER their
villainous and murderous designs! But it is some consolation, though
the government of the country may be silent and indifferent lookers-on
to “_doings_” so nefarious and diabolical, that there are hearts that
feel indignant at the wickedness and imposture of adventurers and
monsters in iniquity, whom the ignorance of mankind in the principles
of life and the science of medicine has, as Dr. Morrison justly says
in _Medicine No Mystery_, “enabled to possess palaces BOUGHT and
CONSTRUCTED with the TREASURES and BLOOD of their victims.”
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