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MEeting accidently at a Coffee-Houſe with a ScandaMorton, and Dr. Goodall; my Curioſity led me to enquire the truth of Fact, believing nothing ill or mean, as that Paper would inſinuate, could come from Men of their Rank and Figure: Upon true Information the Story runs thus:
Dr. Morton being ſent for to a Patient, preſcribed the Jeſuites Bark, as a Remedy he believed would cure the Diſeaſe. The Patient refuſed, alledging it had been often taken by the advice of one Blackſtone an Apothecary in Newgate-Market, (which by the way is more than Blackſtone dare juſtifie, being puniſhable for him to give repeated Doſes without a Phyſitian;) however Dr. Morton modeſtly told the Patient, he would not anſwer for Blackſtone's Practice, or Powder; but if they would pleaſe to ſend to Dr. Goodall, who he knew to have a good ſort by him, which might be depended upon, he believed Dr. Goodall, upon his Note, would ſupply them with ſuch a proportion as was needGoodall ſent two Ounces, at the rate mentioned in the Paper.
But this was purely accidental, without any deſign of Dr. Morton or Dr. Goodall, to ſell, or get advantage by the Medicine, Dr. Goodall taking that Money of the Patient, purely in regard and tenderneſs to the Apothecary, the moſt moderate of the Trade taking that or a better Price for the Medicine; for being it was not to a Charitable Patient, he was not obliged to give it Gratis; ſo on the other hand, he was not willing to give any advantage againſt the Apothecary.
This being the Truth of Fact, betrays the great Malice, Igno
I ſent a Bill to Blackſtone's Shop, for ſome Doſes of the ſame Powder, and inſtead of 4s. per Ounce, they took at the rate of 12s. per Ounce, ſeveral times, and told the Maid that fetch'd it, they did not uſe to ſell it ſo cheap, but they let her have it ſo, in hopes to get her Miſtreſſes Cuſtom: Now the deſign of the Pa
I publiſh this for real Publick Good, to ſhew the Candour, Juſtice, and Civility of the two Phyſitians, and the Baſeneſs, Folly, and horrid Extravagance of the Authors of that Paper, who (beMorton was juſt to his Patient, to preſcribe a good MediGoodall kind to let the Patient have it, and that with ſo much reſpect and kindneſs to the Apothecary,) reflects upon theſe worthy Perſons for ſo doing; chiefly too, becauſe a more rotten ſort of Stuff, perhaps, would not do the feat; is a piece of Villany, to be puniſht by the Civil Magiſtrate, and not by any further notice from the Doctors; who are too Great, Generous and Good, to bark againſt ſuch little Curs; who, as their own Paper does conclude Nothing, are Nothing, and ſit for Nothing, Purely, Simply, (and if poſſible) leſs than Nothing.