Note 545 — Chapter XXX · MEDICAL.

It is impossible to take up a newspaper of that time without encountering some quack advertisements, and the quantity of handbills[545] still preserved, show how they must have flooded the place. There was the 'Volatile Spirit of Bohea Tea,' 'Pilula Salutiferens,' 'Spirit of Scurvy Grass,' 'Balsamick Pills,' 'Elixir Minerale,' 'Green Cathartick Elixir,' 'The Hysterick Tincture,' 'The White Cardialgic Powder,' 'The Volatile Cordial Pill,' 'Tinctura Benedicta,' 'Electuarium Mirabile,' 'Electuary of the Balm of Gilead.' What a list might be made of them! See what Addison says of them in the Tatler (224). The heading to one is given as a sample of the style of art in the handbill.