Quackery Practice) and St. John Long. [~DEC. 



the system generally even the bones were decaying. None of the other 

 witnesses mention the names of the medical men who in despair had 

 given them up, or turned them over to Mr. Long. The general and his 

 lady were precipitate enough to quote Sir Anthony, and what was the 

 consequence? Why Sir Anthony denied any particular knowledge of the 

 case he once visited the lady, and found her in a state of lassitude after 

 sitting up late in a crowded party the night before received his fee, and 

 saw her no more. 



Somebody from Kentish Town, in the East India Company's Service, 

 had been afflicted from his childhood with complaints in his throat. 

 No medical testimony is alleged, nor any medical name mentioned or 

 appealed to. For a long time, it seems, there was no getting at the 

 lurking and offending fluid, with all the rubbing and scrubbing at Mr. 

 Long's the confiding patient rubbed with all his might, but not a drop 

 could be elicited head, chest, neck, it was all in vain still he was 

 better at every rub. At last Mr. Long told him to apply it to the first 

 vertebrae of the neck, where he never knew it fail ; and to preclude the 

 possibility of failure, he rubbed him with his own hand, and soon 

 forced out the unwilling fluid in the required quantity about half a 

 pint, we observe, by his book how it is measured does not appear. 

 Who is to believe in the identity of the lotion in this case ? 



The Surgeon- General of Jamaica of course put forward as a grand 

 authority was a patient of Mr. Long's. But he is also plainly a crony, 

 and even lives at Mr. Long's. In his opinion, the lotion is perfectly 

 innocent he applied it to his eyes and this he a surgeon pronounces 

 of w r hat is manifestly a powerful irritant a corrosive and scorching 

 agent. But we give no credit to the identity. 



Lady Ormond is one of the devotees at Mr. Long's shrine. She 

 washes her hands in the lotion, and, being as sound as a roach herself, 

 it takes no hold. Her daughter has been rubbed for months for a vio- 

 lent headache. Mr. Long cured her ; but she still attends a proof it 

 might seem that she is not cured but she attends probably for 

 enjoyment for the sake of the refreshing sensations, as another of the 

 witnesses stated, who confessed nothing was the matter with her. Lady 

 Ormond said her daughter still goes to Mr. Long's temple, and will go 

 adding, in a thorough-going spirit, so shall all my children, whenever 

 any thing is the matter with them. 



Mrs. Ottley is quite at home at Mr. Long's. Well or ill, all her 

 family, young and old, dabble in this precious liquid the scent is rather 

 agreeable than otherwise. Upon herself its virtue is not very percep- 

 tible. Nevertheless, after constantly using it for two months, such was 

 the result, that the medical men who had previously attended her 

 acknowledged she was better. Mr. Long has different modes of con- 

 ciliating his patients of making his house and treatment attractive. 

 Mrs. Ottley never had any presents of wine or whiskey tea was either 

 more appropriate, or more to her taste, and she accordingly had some 

 choice gunpowder. 



Mr. Prendergast has the weight and dignity of an M.P., and, withal, 

 a most unreasoning credulity to stamp the value of his testimony. He 

 had what he is pleased to designate a determination of blood to the head 

 probably mistaking the technical sense of the term altogether. He 

 was found to have the offending fluid in great abundance. Mr. Long 

 applied the lotion late in the evening, and in the night the patient was 



