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He is never without old merry tales and stale jests to make old folks laugh, and comfits or plums in his pocket to please little children; yea, and he will be talking of complexions, though he know nothing of their dispositions; and if his medicine do a feat, he is a made man among fools; but being wholly unlearned, and ofttimes unhonest, let me thus briefly describe him: He is a plain kind of mountebank and a true quack-salver, a danger for the sick to deal withal, and a dizzard in the world to talk withal.
"There's nothing like pills!" the Quack-salver was saying at the top of his voice; "place one upon the tip o' the tongue in this fashion take a drink o' water, beer, or wine, as the case may be, give a couple o' swallers, and there you are.
This Lee, I must observe, had no legal right to the prefix of doctor tacked to his name. He was merely a peripatetic quack-salver and vender of infallible medicines, who, having wielded the pestle in an apothecary's shop for some years during his youth, had acquired a little skill in the use of drugs, and could open a vein or draw a tooth with considerable dexterity.
"Then the cures of Christ were not miracles?" "No more so than any great and noble work is a miracle." "And do you," inquired my companion, removing his pipe from his lips, and staring at me very hard, "do you believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God?" "Yes," said I, "in the same way that you and I are, and the Quack-salver yonder." "But was He divine?"
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