The New-England Courant (1721)
“ It's a hard Case, that a Man can't appear in Print now a Days, unless he'll undergo the Mortification of Answering to ten thousand senseless and Impertinent questions like these, Pray Sir, from whence came you? ”
Summary
“The New-England Courant”, published in 1721, is a work by . It explores elements such as North Carolina, Leward Islands and Cognizance.
Quotes from The New-England Courant ()
The New-England Courant (1721)
“ They set up for Judges of a Man's Qualifications in the Practice of Physick and very lavishly bestow all the fulsome common Place of Quack Advertisements. One would think they meant some Romantick Character, something beyond that of candid Sydenham, the sagacious Radcliff, or the celebrated Mead: they might indeed in respect of his moral and religious Qualifications, which lay properly under their Cognizance, have said, that he was a modest, humble Man of Continency, Probity, &c. ”
The New-England Courant (1721)
“ A Continuation of the History of Inoculation in Boston, by a Society of the Practitioners in Physick. THe bold undertaker of the Practice of the Greek old Women, notwithstanding the Terror and Confusion from his Son's Inoculation-Fever, proceeds to inoculate Persons from Seventy Years of Age and downwards. The Select Men (or Managers of the Town Affairs) in duty bound to take Cognizance of the Matter, desire a Meeting of all the Practitioners in Town, to have their Opinion whether the Practice ought to be allowed or not ”
