There also lived Dr. Graham, who was not heard of before 1780, and he was an arch quack. About that year he took a mansion in the Royal Terrace, Adelphi, which he fitted up sumptuously. It was inscribed ‘Templum Æsculapio Sacrum,’ and was called both the ‘Temple of Health,’ and the ‘Hymeneal Temple.’ Here, in air heavy with incense, he lectured on electricity and magnetism. He was a past master in the art of puffing, and published several books in glorification of himself. In one, called ‘MEDICAL TRANSACTIONS at the Temple of Health in London, in the course of the years 1781 & 1782,’ he gives a wonderful list of cures worked by his ‘Electrical Æther, Nervous Æthereal Balsam, Imperial Pills, Liquid Amber, British Pills,’ and his ‘Bracing, or Restorative Balsam,’ which, in order to bring within the reach of ordinary people, he kindly consented to sell at half-price, namely, ‘that the bottles marked, and formerly sold at one guinea, may _now_ be had at only half-a-guinea; the half-guinea bottles at five shillings and threepence; the five shilling at half-a-crown, and the two-and-sixpenny vials at _only one shilling and threepence_.’ In this book, too, are some choice specimens of poetry, all laudatory of Dr. Graham, one of which is worth repeating, as a specimen-- ‘_An_ ACROSTIC, _by a_ LADY. D EIGN, to accept the tribute which I owe, O ne grateful, joyful tear, permit to flow; C an I be silent when good health is given? T hat first--that best--that richest gift of heaven! O Muse! descend, in most exalted lays, R eplete with softest notes, attune his praise. G en’rous by nature, matchless in thy skill! R ich in the God-like art--to ease--to heal; A ll bless thy gifts! the sick--the lame--the blind, H ail thee with rapture for the cure they find! A rm’d by the DEITY with power divine, M ortals revere HIS attributes in thine.’ In this temple of ‘Health and Hymen’ he had a wonderful ‘Celestial Bed,’ which he pretended cost sixty thousand pounds. He guaranteed that the sleepers therein, although hitherto childless, should become prolific; but it was somewhat costly, for the fee for its use for a single night was one hundred pounds. Still, he had some magneto-electric beds, which, probably, were as efficacious, at a lower rate, only fifty pounds nightly. The title-page of a pamphlet on his establishment is noteworthy. ‘IL CONVITO AMOROSO, Or a Serio--comico--philosophical LECTURE on the _Causes, Nature, and Effects of Love and Beauty_, At the Different Periods of Human Life, in Persons, and Personages, Male, Female, and Demi-Charactêre; And in Praise of the Genial and Prolific Influences of the CELESTIAL BED! As Delivered by HEBE VESTINA, The Rosy Goddess of Youth and of Health! from the _Electrical Throne! in the Great Apollo-Chamber_, At the TEMPLE of HYMEN, in LONDON,