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CJ-NH.773.010
19 Mar 1773:13 (283)
ANECDOTE.
Dr. Dover, an eminent physician, a few years since,
published a book, entitled, Dr. Dover's last legacy to his
country, in which he strongly recommended the use of
quicksilver, insomuch that it become the medicine of high
and low, till a lady of distinction dancing at a public
assembly, the quicksilver she had taken that morning dropt
plentifully from her and all bespangled the floor; which the
glaring light of many candles, the gentlemen took to be
brilliants, and stooped down to take them up accordingly;
but finding it was only quicksilver, and judging from whence
it came, they cry'd out, that somebody had scattered their
diamonds, which occasioned a horse-laugh among the
gentlemen, & put all the ladies to the blush. This
whimsical accident quite discredited the prescription.
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