An essay on the nature and cure of the king's evil: deduced from observations and practice. The second edition: with an addition of remarkable...

"IT is not from any Vanity of appearing in Print, especially a second time, after such ungenerous Usage as I have met with from Persons calling themselves Reviewers, but to make myself useful in my Generation to unhappy Sufferers, as far as I am able. I refuse not the poorest Person my Assistance (as well as the Rich) if they come to my House. The Pleasure I feel by relieving the Afflicted, overbalances all the Cavillings, Sneers, and ill-natured Reflections of Reviewers, or any other Writers for Bread, who speak Evil of the Things that they understand not. Let them answer me by solid Arguments, confirmed by as many real Cures as I have done; then I shall rejoice to hear so many more miserable Objects have been relieved from their Disorders by my stirring up the Attention or Ambition of others to Practice with more Success."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.