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I attribute it to the fund of credulity which is in all mankind. We have no longer faith in miracles and relics, and, therefore, with the same fury, run after recipes and physicians. The same money which, three hundred years ago, was given for the health...

The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her ... - Page 31
by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1805
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Médecins et charlatans en Angleterre (1760-1815)

Nadine Fenouillat - Impostors and imposture - 1991 - 420 pages

...run as eagerly after receipts and doctors, and the money which was given three centuries ago for the health of the soul, is now given for the health of the body, by the same sort of people, women and half-witted men. Quacks are despised in countries where they...

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