‘They rail mightily in their Writings against the ignorance of _Quacks_ and _Mountebanks_, yet, for the sake of _Lucre_, they Licence all the Cozening Pretenders about Town, or they could not Practise; which shows it is by their Toleration that the People are Cheated out of their Lives and Money; and yet they think themselves so Honest, as to be no ways answerable for this Publick Injury; as if they could not kill People fast enough themselves, but must depute all the Knaves in the Town to be Death’s Journeymen. Thus do they License what they ought carefully to Suppress; and Practise themselves what they Blame and Condemn in others; And that the Town may not be deceived by _Apothecaries_, they have made themselves _Medicine-Mongers_,[96] under a pretence of serving the Publick with more faithful preparations; in order to perswade the World to a belief of which, they have publish’d Bills, where, in the true _Quack’s_ Dialect, they tell you the Poor shall be supply’d for nothing; but whoever is so Needy as to make a Challenge of their promise empty-handed, will find, according to the _Mountebank’s_ saying, _No Money, No Cure_. The disposal of their Medicines they leave to a Boy’s management, who scarce knows _Mercurius Dulcis_ from _White Sugar_, or _Mint Water_ from _Aqua Fortis_: So that People are likely to be well serv’d, or Prescriptions truly observed by such an Agent.’ If this was a faithful portrait of a physician in the commencement of the century, what must a charlatan have been? They sowed their hand-bills broadcast. Gay, in his ‘Trivia,’ book ii., says, ‘If the pale Walker pants with weak’ning Ills, His sickly Hand is stor’d with Friendly Bills: From hence he learns the seventh born[97] Doctor’s Fame, From hence he learns the cheapest Tailor’s name.’ So universal was this practice of advertising that, to quote Ward[98] once more, when talking of the Royal Exchange, he says, ‘The Wainscote was adorn’d with Quacks’ Bills, instead of Pictures; never an Emperick in the Town, but had his Name in a Lacquered Frame, containing a fair Invitation for a Fool and his Money to be soon parted.’