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the man contradicts point-blanc, and by arguments perfectly childish, 

 some of the best established principles of the science of medicine. 



Nevertheless, it will be urged probably he has performed numerous 

 cures, and has experienced few failures. We do not deny that the 

 rough discipline to which his patients were subjected may have produced 

 on some of them salutary effects ; but we do not believe a tithe of the 

 cures to which he lays claim and as to the failures, we know little 

 about them at present. More, we doubt not, will come to light. Long's book 

 is more than half filled with testimonials, zealously collected by his friend 

 Lord Ingestrie, who has furnished a satisfactory measure of his own intel- 

 lect they are obviously got up for effect. Numerous friends presented 

 themselves at the inquest, and again at the trial some of them of rank, 

 but none of them so distinguished as to give any weight to their opi- 

 nions ; and as to questions of fact relative to morbid matters, it is not 

 every body that can either detect or detail them. So much emphasis, 

 however, is laid on this evidence, that it may seem to demand some 

 consideration it is essentially of so little value, that it scarcely de- 

 serves it. 



First comes a young lady in a carriage with shewy appointments 

 but alone, it will be observed no gentleman to protect her in such a 

 scene no female companion to support her. No ; her father, mother, 

 brother, and sister, aunts and cousins, we believe, all died of the disease, 

 from the jaws of which Mr. Long rescued her, after she had been given 

 up by all the faculty. None of the said faculty, however, bear testi- 

 mony to the fact. The young lady, according to the reports, had been 

 tattooed, almost every inch of her, by Mr. Long, though the " marks" 

 were now but slight. She had been Mr. Long's patient two years, and 

 had long been cured. Nevertheless, like most of the witnesses, she had 

 seen Miss Cashin at Mr. Long's. How came that about ? Mr. Long's 

 house, it seems, was quite a house of call for all the old patients they 

 came in crowds they were employed in encouraging the new ones 

 washing their hands in the mixture putting it in their mouths,, &c. 

 Chocolate and sandwiches were circulating every thing was done to 

 make the house agreeable to the ladies it was the nicest lounge in the 

 world. 



A gentleman, who calls himself a solicitor at Brighton,, states his case, 

 with evident knowledge of what he was talking about, as one of debi- 

 lity, arising from a neglected wound. The wound was, nevertheless, 

 in a highly inflamed state. The universal lotion was most successful, 

 and so convinced was the patient of its efficacy, that, recollecting his 

 digestion was none of the best at all times, he bethought him, if the 

 lotion was good for a wound, it might be good too for a feeble digestion 

 the good people about him at Mr. Long's telling him all the while 

 wonders of its catholic powers. Accordingly, he applied it forthwith 

 to his chest, having some notion the stomach was thereabouts, and none 

 of any other digestive organ and scarcely was the rubbing over, than 

 he found himself in a state to eat a shoulder of mutton and he that can 

 eat that, can, it may be presumed, eat anything. 



Then comes Mrs. General Sharp, who assures the coroner, she was 

 decidedly consumptive. Sir Anthony Carlisle, and other eminent medi- 

 cal men, considered her case hopeless. With Mrs. Sharp appears the 

 General, her caro sposo, to confirm all she says, and especially as to 

 Sir Anthony's opinion. Sir Anthony told him plainly it was a decay of 



