A confidential communication of the enemy of human diseases : and the afflicted applying to him, to whom only is intended this supplementary reflection concerning the cause of human prevalent miseries ... / By Sylvan, enemy to human diseases.

  • Sylvan, pseud.
Date:
1814
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Credit: A confidential communication of the enemy of human diseases : and the afflicted applying to him, to whom only is intended this supplementary reflection concerning the cause of human prevalent miseries ... / By Sylvan, enemy to human diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    would have prevented invidious beings from arguing ci speculation on the matter. But experience also has in- formed of the contrary, and that the incurable enemy to human welfare, wanting to increase their caviling corpo- ration, neglect no means to succeed in their endeavour, pertinently asserting the great profit that is made upon articles, that have been sold from four to six cents a hex. But not so blind or presumptuous as to attempt to eradi- cate such inveterate and incurable diseases, as the one, by which are afflicted malice and detraction the relating their usual schemes and trying to vilify what they cannot im- itate is only for the purpose of preventing their contagion from making great progress among those, who de- monstrate that the beholding their pain and distress, is a A-iew which they should not like to be deprived of. And in this occurrence, obliged to make use of preservative, in order to check the infection issuing from impure mouths, and venomous tongues, to prove the solidity of their assertion, with regard to the pretended, great bene- fit made by the two preceding articles, namely, tooth powder and snuff, to those, who are tried to be perverted in their faith, one must tell that, if their former invigora- tors and the present protectors, patrons of human life and health had no other support to keep them in splendour and plenty and maintain their sumptuous train and ap- pearance, than the profit flowing from the snuff and tooth powder they would wmm be reduced to the honourable and splendid condition of starving, tattered mendicants- And to have some 'proofs of it and to have the tacts eorrobo- rated, if not for the purpose of confounding interested wran- glers by the sight of the truth, but only to have it revealed t© those, to whom it imports to have it known. Then one must say, that to be Supplied with the boxes necessary to receive the two pulverized powders, forced to receive from distant parts the said boxes, and wishing to receive a great quantity at a time, the necessary vessels or boxes by an unaccountable fatality have been successively and repeatedly destroyed by fortuitous events, viz.—ship- wreck, c^c. and that as surprising as the amount of the loss may appear, it was not less than a hundred dollar*; ani