misaubin

Updated: May 5, 2025

Agreeable to these observations was, I remember, the complaint of the great Doctor Misaubin, who used very pathetically to lament the late applications which were made to his skill, saying, "Bygar, me believe my pation take me for de undertaker, for dey never send for me till de physicion have kill dem."

Henry Fielding - History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

But if you all smile on my labours I hope still to bring them to a happy conclusion. What befel Mr Jones on his arrival in London. The learned Dr Misaubin used to say, that the proper direction to him was To Dr Misaubin, in the World; intimating that there were few people in it to whom his great reputation was not known.

Henry Fielding - History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

To this she replies by requesting that for the future he will beat the other half. This is apparently intended as a burlesque of the notorious quack Misaubin, to whom the Mock-Doctor was ironically dedicated. He was the proprietor of a famous pill, and was introduced by Hogarth into the Harlot's Progress.

Austin Dobson - Fielding