1830.] Quackery Practice, and Si. John Long. 6r!5 



what ground, with what view and expectation, drugs are forced down 

 our throats why the blood is drained from our veins what are the causes 

 and symptoms of disease, organic and vascular what the promptest and 

 most appropriate remedies, than to learn languages which we never 

 use, or study nations we never visit whose happiness we can never 

 influence, nor whose weal or woe can affect our own. 



Mr. Long's reign we pronounce to be at an end. We scarcely wish 

 to see him brought again before the courts riot even for imprisonment 

 or exile. Neither is the appropriate punishment that is the scorn of 

 the world. His patients are themselves committed they are the ac- 

 complices of his crimes. He has no design to kill it could never 

 answer his purpose to kill, though a single instance, by a kind of reaction, 

 has gathered up his friends to his support it might be an accident. 

 But repetition he must know, would ruin him he is effectually ruined. 

 Without receivers there would be no thieves, and without dupes and 

 noodles there would be no quacks. The women are in these cases sure 

 game. They readily give their confidence to medical men they dabble 

 themselves in medicine, and readily grow fantastical about drugs and 

 salves. Credulity or vanity take them to the charlatan, and pride 

 prompts them to persevere. If of rank, they are ready to play the 

 protector they expect to ride over the heads of the laughing vulgar, 

 and silence the public voice by the din, and clatter, and pretension of 

 station and title. No man of cultivated understanding no man, cer- 

 tainly, whose mind has been turned fairly to the subject of disease and 

 the treatment of it, has throughout appeared to bear an atom of testi- 

 mony in Long's favour. His own practice manifests the most deplorable 

 ignorance while his book, to any person of common sense, quite inde- 

 pendently of any medical knowledge, is decisive of his absolute unfit- 

 ness for conducting a hazardous process. He has suppressed the book 

 himself has taken away all the copies from his publishers what jug- 

 gling fiend could have tempted him into printing at all ? 



A WEEK AT CONSTANTINOPLE IN 1829 \ 

 BY A NAVAL OFFICER. 



*' Plus on voyage, plus on est content de son pays !" 



THE Mediterranean station, with its lovely climate, splendid relics of 

 antiquity, and their accompanying host of classical recollections, in addi- 

 tion to the varied and romantic picture of human life, presented by the 

 nations who inhabit its shores, forming a singularly beautiful contrast 

 with the more staid manners and customs of our own isle, to be met 

 with in our garrisons at Gibraltar, Malta, and the Ionian Islands, has 

 always been one in high favour with the Navy. But ever since the 

 " untoward" event of Navarino, and the commencement of hostilities 

 between Russia and the Porte, these lovely regions have assumed an 

 interest of a higher character, from the almost general impression that 

 they were destined to become once more, to use an expression of Admi- 

 ral de Rigny's, " le theatre des grands evenemens :" in fact, the 

 strong reinforcements which came out from England towards the middle 



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