New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-03-05
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non s IN all its sneaking nastiness from pollutet
hand bills seizes us by the throat in broad daylgh
to farce our attention to it, it draws us after it b,
syren drawings from brazen throats pehea'n Ih'
j dazzling blaze of glaring lamps and arng torches
it grapples at our heart.strngs for their charity
through lazy, vagrant, frowsy- playground hurdy
gurdies and girl-child cat-gut scrapings. Gree
1 breeches metheglins seraphic silvery lost star
and precocious namby pamby Rosciuses, yellow
covered truth-mocking lies and perjuries, bullying
charlatanisms garbed in the dregs of scientif
sinks, and a thousand and one such corruption
are thrust on us as though we were indeed bu
whited sepulchres, full of nothing but rottenness
and fit for naught else.
- Can such things be,
And overcome like cloud,
Without our special wonder?p
Alas! and alas they always have been, an
they ever will be. But surely, there might be
limit put to their extravaganza. Their coarse
features, their grosser ofensiveness and their mos
injurious tendencies not necessities of our civ
ilization; or, if they are, God help it In tn
name of Facts and Fictions, LET something be don't
to control them! Let it not be said it cannot b.
done; for
'sIn idle wishes fools supney stay
| Be there will, and wisdom finds the way"
They existed in England, in all their glory, I'LL
1854. Then they were brought under certain
degree of control by order suppressing such as
did not procure license. What little way that
went towards what has been effected since, may
be illustrated by few notes from our convenient
Book Of Days. and these may not be without
their own intrinsic interest. sketch written in
1723, placing the incident at Winchester, says
"As was sitting at the George Inn, saw coach
with six bay horses, calash and four, chaise
and four, enter the inn, in yellow livery turned
up with red; four gentlemen on horseback, in
blue, trimmed with silver; and as yellow is the
color given by the dukes in England, went out to
see what duke it was; but there was no coronet
on the coach only plain coat Of arms on each,
with the motto:
sARGENT0 LABORAT FABEG.h
(The smith works in slver.) "Upon inquiry, /
found this great equipage belonged to mounte-
bank, and that his name being Smith, the motto
was pun upon his name. The footm en- in yellow
were his tumblers and trumpeters, and those in
blue his merry-Andrew, his apothecary, and his
spokesman. He was dressed in black velvet, and
had n his coach woman that danced on the
ropes. He cures all diseases and sells his packets
for sixpenee piece. He erected stages in all the
market towns twenty miles round; and it is prod
ICY how so wise people as the English are gulled
by such pick.pockets. But his amusements on the
stage are worth the sxpence, without the pills.
The writer does not say that the pills without the
amusements were therefore worth nothing but it
is necessary coroary of his proposition; and
there is little doubt that it might safely be modi
fed by the additional clause that it was well in
deed when the pills did not produce manifest mis-
chief. SIN the morning." the writer continues,
she is dressed up in fine brocade night gown, for
his chamber practice, when he gives advice and
gets large fees" What became of this fellow we
Ire not told. Of the sad-we refrain from saying,
n uncharitable judgment deserved-fate of two
,ther noted quacks subsequent paragraphs do tell
lS
One Of these was Katerfelto, of whom Covper,
n the Task says:
ttAnd Katerfelto, with his hair on end
At his own wonders, wondering for his bread"
And here is what is recorded of him: 4 1t is
stated that Dr. Katerfelto practiced on the people
Of London in the influenza of 1852; that he added
to his nostrums the fascinations Of hocuspocus !;
and that with the services of some extraordinary
black cats he astonished the vulgar. *
His travelling equipage consisted of an old rum
bling COACH drawn by pair Of sorry hacks, and
his two black servants wore green iveries, with
red collars. They were sent round the town,
blowing trumpets and delivering bills of their mas
ter's performances. These were-in the day time,
a microscope; in the evening, electrical expert
ments, in which the black cats the DOCTORS
devils played their parts in electric sparks
tricks Of legerdemain concluded the entertain
ments. He was a tall thin man, dressed
in black gown and square cap, and is
said TO have been originally a soldier in
the Prussian service. In one of his adver-
tsements, he states that he was Colonel in the
Deaths Head regiment Of Hussars, a terrific
prognostic Of his ultimate profession. He had
many mishaps in his coniuring career: once he
sent up fire balloon, which, falling upon hay
stack, set it on fire and it was consumed, when
wassued for its value and sent to prison
in default of payment. And, not long before his
death, he was committed by the mayor of shrews
bury to the house of correction in that city, as
vagrant and impostor." This ingenious beauty
that through his microscope " those in
sects ,ohich caused the late Influenza, will be seen
IS large as bird. :" He elsewhere declares
himself the greatest philosopher in this kingdom
since Sir Isaac Newton
Dr. Graham is another of the tribe. He opened
what he called a Temple of Health, in which cleo
.ricty and magnetism and mud baths were the
remedies with which he proposed to give people
he blessing of enjoying health and yigor of body
md mind, and Of preserving and exalting personal
beauty and loyeliness or, in other words of living
With health, honor and happiness in this world,
or at least a hundred years" With him the too
beautiful, too famous, and unhappy Lady Hamil-
on, worked as coadjutor, taking mud baths to
prove their beauty-producing power, under the
romantic name of Vestina
Nor was this the only way in which this
luacks name was connected with those of celeb.
tiles. He had assisting him, under the title
# junior priest, young medical man named Nit
ord This young man became the father of the
amous authoress, Miss Milford. Graham after
wards took palatial mansion, christened it the
Temple Of Health and Hymen, and fitted it up and
ighted it with much magniicence Though the
ntrance fee was five shliings-equal, perhaps, to
I've dollars in the greenbacks of to-day" his
puffs and confident lectures, ON subjects
ow impossible to be alluded to,' attracted large
udiences. But :" his popularity waned and he
led poor in the neighborhood of Glasgow. He
lay be fairly considered as the last of the un-
lushing quack-doctors.p
But, although the svery Smiths, and the Kater-
ltos, and the Grahams are no longer known in
ngland " DR.. Marigold's Prescriptions and
% Clay statue, aye, alas! and how many other
r., no nd nJa naa will fel ua of what mnuntehanl-