"My name is Pulsefeel, a poor Doctor of Physick, That does wear three-pile velvet in his hat, Has paid a quarter's rent of his house beforehand, And (simple as he stands here) was made doctor beyond sea. I vow, as I am right worshipful, the taking Of my degree cost me twelve French crowns, and Thirty-five pounds of butter in Upper Germany. I can make your beauty and preserve it, Rectifie your bodie and maintaine it, Clarifie your blood, surfle your cheeks, perfume Your skin, tinct your hair, enliven your eye, Heighten your appetite; and as for Jellies, Dentifrizes, Dyets, Minerals, Fricasses, Pomatums, Fumes, Italia masks to sleep in, Either to moisten or dry the superficies, Faugh! Galen Was a goose and Paracelsus a Patch, to Doctor Pulsefeel." FOOTNOTES: [202:1] There is a legend of a certain physician, who would never eat roast duck, because certain members of that impolite bird's tribe had addressed insulting remarks to him. [202:2] Book ii, x, 2. [203:1] _An Enquiry into Dr. Ward's Practice of Physick_; London, Printed for J. Humphrey at the Pamphlet Shop, next to the Artichoke, near Great Turn-Stile in Holburn, 1749. [203:2] Second Series, vol. iii; 1857. [206:1] _The New World_, vol. ii; 1893. [206:2] Dr. Hugo Magnus, _Superstition in Medicine_. [208:1] _Universal Cyclopædia and Atlas_, 1908. [210:1] Dr. Hugo Magnus, _Superstition in Medicine_. [210:2] _The International Monthly_, vol. v; 1902. [210:3] Vol. ii. [211:1] _Montreal Medical Journal_, vol. xxxi; 1902. [212:1] Edward Berdoe, _The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art_. [213:1] Charaka, _Samhita_, vol. iii, p. 8. [214:1] Vol. ii, p. 108. [215:1] _Social England_, vol. ii, p. 104. [216:1] _Practitioner_, vol. lxviii; 1902. [218:1] M. D. Synge, _A Short History of Social Life in England_. [218:2] Dr. Theodor Puschmann, _A History of Medical Education_. [219:1] Larousse, _Grand Dictionnaire Universel_, art. "Charlatan." [219:2] This word appears to have been used in the sense of _Medicaster_, a diminutive of the Latin _Medicus_, a physician. [222:1] The spelling of this extract has been modernized. CHAPTER XIX QUACKS AND QUACKERY (CONTINUED) An English physician, who practised during the early part of the reign of King James I, described the charlatan of that period as shameless, a mortal hater of all good men, an adept in cozening, legerdemain, conycatching,[223:1] and all other shifts and sleights; a cracking boaster, proud, insolent, a secret back-biter, a contentious wrangler, a common jester and liar, a runagate wanderer, a cogging[223:2] sychophant and covetous exactor, a wringer of his patients. In a word, a man, or rather monster, made of a mixture of all vices.[223:3]