You Surgeons of _London_ who puzzle your Pates, To ride in your Coaches, and purchase Estates, Give over, for Shame, for your Pride has a Fall, And y^e Doctress of _Epsom_ has outdone you all. What signifies Learning, or going to school, When a Woman can do without Reason or Rule, What puts you to Non-plus, and baffles your Art, For Petticoat-Practice has now got the Start. In Physick, as well as in Fashions, we find The newest has always its Run with Mankind; Forgot is the bustle ‘bout Taylor and Ward, Now _Mapp’s_ all y^e Cry, and her Fame’s on Record. Dame Nature has giv’n her a Doctor’s Degree, She gets all y^e Patients, and pockets the Fee; So if you don’t instantly prove her a Cheat, She’ll loll in her Chariot while you walk y^e Street.’[105] At this time she was at her acme--but if an anonymous writer in the _Cornhill Magazine_ for March, 1873, p. 82, is to be believed, she died December, 1837, ‘at her lodgings near Seven Dials, so miserably poor, that the parish was obliged to bury her.’ In No. 572 of the _Spectator_, July 26, 1714,[106] is a very amusing article on the quacks of Queen Anne’s time: ‘There is scarce a city in Great Britain but has one of this tribe, who takes it into his protection, and on the market-day harangues the good people of the place with aphorisms and receipts. You may depend upon it he comes not there for his own private interest, but out of a particular affection to the town. I remember one of these public-spirited artists at Hammersmith, who told his audience that he had been born and bred there, and that, having a special regard for the place of his nativity, he was determined to make a present of five shillings to as many as would accept of it. The whole crowd stood agape and ready to take the doctor at his word; when, putting his hand into a long bag, as everyone was expecting his crown piece, he drew out a handful of little packets, each of which, he informed the spectators, was constantly sold at five shillings and sixpence, but that he would bate the odd five shillings to every inhabitant of that place; the whole assembly immediately closed with this generous offer, and took off all his physick, after the doctor had made them vouch for one another, that there were no foreigners among them, but that they were all Hammersmith men.