CHAPTER XXVI.
VAGRANT QUACKS.
We sometimes see a migrating or vagrant quack who travels from place to place, always hailing from some large city, and notifying the villagers where he stops that he is very eminent in the treatment of some one or more particular disease—perhaps it is rheumatism, scrofula, asthma, neuralgia, cancer, consumption, or all of them together. Sometimes these men give a free lecture by way of introduction, and sometimes a kind of aid-de-camp is a travelling attendant, whose business is to eulogize the great doctor, and help to drum up the patients. No charge for advice! is conspicuous in the advertisement. Their medicines are all specifics, and such as no one else employs or has a knowledge of, and they take care to inform all who are silly enough to consult them, that they are laboring under some occult or serious affections,
