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of the cure and eminencye of the danger, would not,- for all that, 

 adventure to doe any thinge of himself, without the advice of the 

 rest, saying, that it should never be said in after ages, that he had 

 kylled the Kynge's eldest sonne." 



*' * Bleeding was again proposed by Mayeme, but Doctors 

 Hamond, Butler, and Atkins could not agree about it ; instead 

 of which they doubled and tripled the cordials. 



♦* * Then came to assist the rest, Dr. Palmer and Dr. Giffard, 

 famous physicians for their honestie and learninge. The result of 

 this consultation was Diascordium^ which was given in the pre- 

 sence of many honourable gentlemen. 



" * All sorts of cardials were sent. Sir Walter Raioleigh sent 

 one from the Tower.' " 



" Mrs. MAPP. 



•' No part of surgery is supposed to be so easy to understand 

 as hone-setting ; it is regarded by a considerable part of the people 

 as no matter of science, an affair on a level with farriery, as 

 easily learnt, and like a heritage, to be transmitted from father 

 to son ; in short, the pretensions of these people are very like 

 those of the man who set up as an oculist, because he had lost an 

 eye^ or the rupture doctor, who cured hursten children, because his 

 grandfather and grandmother were both hursten. 



'* We are not without plenty of ignorant and impudent pre- 

 tenders at the present day, but the celebrated Mrs. Mapp, the 

 bone-setter of Epsom, surpasses them all. She was the daughter 

 of a man named Wallis, a bone-setter at Hindon, in Wiltshire, 

 and sister to the celebrated ' Polly Peachem,' who married the 

 Duke of Bolton. Upon some family quurrel,' Sally Wallis left her 

 professional parent, and wandered up and down the country in a 

 miserable manner, calling herself * Crazy Sally,* and pursuing, 

 in her perambulations, a course that fairly justified the title. 

 Arriving at last at Epsom,, she succeeded in humbugging the 

 worthy bumpkins of that place so decidedly, that a subscription 

 was set on foot to keep her among them ; but her fame extending 

 to the metropolis, the dupes of London, a numerous class then as 

 well as now, thought it no trouble to go ten miles to see the con- 

 juror, till at length, she was pleased to bless the afflicted of 

 London with her presence, and once a week drove to the Grecian 

 Coffee-house, in a coach and six, with out-riders ! and all the 

 appearance of nobility. It was in one of these journeys, passing 

 through Kent-street, in the Borough, that being taken for a cer- 

 tain woman of quality from the Electorate in Germany, a great 

 mob followed, and bestowed on her many bitter reproaches, till 

 Madame, perceiving some mistake, looked out of the window, and 



accosted them in this gentle manner: * D n your bloods, don't 



you know me? lam Mrs. Mapp, i\iQ bone-setter T upou which, 

 they instantly changed their revilings into loud huzzas. 



" That she was likely enough to express herself in these terms, 



