The Detector of Quackery, or Analyser of Medical, Philosophical, Political, Dramatic, and Literary Imposture (Classic Reprint)

Notwithstanding the vigilance of this respectable body, empiricism from time to time committed depre dations on the health of the people of England. Francis Anthony, an Englishman, after having studied medicine at Hamburgh, returned to his native country, and in the year 1598, published a treatise concerning a panacea extracted from gold. He commenced practitioner in London without a licence from the College of Physi eiaus, in consequence of which he was fined 20, and imprisoned.

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