“The Scurvy (the only reigning disease in this Kingdom) when it is grown so bad, as to become scandalous, so as many People think it to be the POX”. William Salmon, Collectanea Medica, the Country Physician (London, 1703), p. 4

November 2, 1720/in Cleverest Man In England, Foul Pestilence, Hostility to Jewish People, Lord Sumption, Rule of Six, Scoundrels, Social bubbles /by The Somnambulist

My Lords and Gentlemen, In my Treatise, I will explain by giving examples how the Body Politick is infected by Scoundrels no less than the girls in Moll King’s House are infected by the Pox. The days recently past have provided more than one such example. Last week I met Mr Mordecai Benjamin at Bevis […]