Nugae canorae; or, epitaphian mementos (in stone-cutters' verse) of the Medici family of modern times / By Unus Quorum [pseud.] [i.e. W. Wadd].

  • Wadd, William, 1776-1829.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Nugae canorae; or, epitaphian mementos (in stone-cutters' verse) of the Medici family of modern times / By Unus Quorum [pseud.] [i.e. W. Wadd]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    X. A WATER-DRINKING DOCTOR. “Apioroy pev Dowp. Here lies a man who, drinking only water, Wrote several books, with each had son or daughter ; Had he but used the juice of generous vats, | The World would scarce have held his books and brats; Or had he not in pulse been such a glutton, This Lams had not been now as dead as mutton. . * Raw head and bloody bones,” the: nursery goblin, appears occasionally in different shapes to grown people, not excepting very learned people. The goblin haunts our Doctor very heavily, in the tangible form and figure of lead; assuming the shape of a water-pipe. He thinks the increase of certain diseases is in proportion to the increase of leaden pipes in the city, and a whole host of dis- eases the offspring of debilitating forces, such as scrophula, phthisis pulmonalis, dropsy, chronic rheumatism, dyspepsia, bilious complaints, hypo- chondriasis, and the thousand nervous complaints that infest modern life: nay, he even goes so far as to conjecture that the Scotch complaint, pyrosis, is derived more from the leaden worm employed in distillation, than the ardent spirit distilled! The dropsy of punch-drinkers not to the alcohol, but to the water! ‘The deleterious matter he de- signates sceptic poison, which resembling arseni- 7 o