January 17, 2008
Poetry
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Being There
by: Unknown
I never carved your name in stone
Or chipped initials in the bark
Of oaks to show the world I care
I prove my love by being there
When tears of sadness fill your eyes
When others cast harsh words like stones
That sting and cut though they’re untrue
I’m there to catch those stones for you
When people turn their backs and hide
When deaf ears meet your cries for help
For someone who can understand
I’m there to lend a helping hand
When all the world becomes too much
When everything is going wrong
And darkness spirals down to night
I’m there to guide you back to light
I never carved your name in stone
Or chipped initials in the bark
But if you took my chest apart
Your name is there I cross my heart
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January 14, 2008
Collectible
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ON EBAY
Magic,Medicine & Quackery
by Eric Maple
U.K. First Edition,First Printing
Cloth Hardcover
Published by Robert Hale,London,,1968
1968 First Published in Great Britain Statement is Present on the Copyright Page/No Others
Very Good Book/No Dustjacket
Contents:
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The Roots of Quackery
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Ancient Light
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Holy Quackery
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The Quacks’ Charter
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Doctor versus Devil
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The Great Age of Quackery
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Quacks,Cranks,and Empirics
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Adapt,Adopt,or Perish
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Old Medicine in New Bottles
Bibliography
Illustrations:
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A White Witch With Her Patients From an Engraving after Peter Breughel the Younger,1564-1637
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A Medical Consultation at the Highest Level. From Holbein’s Dance of Death
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Paracelsus,Magician,Scientist and Quack. From a Woodcut by August Hirchvogel
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Simon Forman: The Darker Side of Medicine Often Involved Poisoning and Witchcraft. From Caulfield’s Remarkable Portraits,1794
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Greatrakes the Stroker,a Seventeenth Century Fringe Medicine man. From a Print Published in 1794 and Included in A Collection of Four Hundred Portraits
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Andrew Boorde: The Merry Andrew Who Took Medicine to the People. From an Engraving of a Portrait by Holbein
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Hans Buling,Mountebank,with His Medical Auxiliary. Included in A Collection of Four Hundred Portraits
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Joe Haines,The Mock Mountebank Who Parodied the Quacks. From Chamber’s Book of Days,1863
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Eighteenth Century Dental Humour Anticipated Punch. Print by an Unknown Artist.
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Joshua Ward:Of Late Without the Least Pretence to Skill Ward’s Grown a Famed Physician by a Pill.Print Published in Caulfields Collection,1819
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John Taylor: Ophthalminator, Pontificial, Imperial and Royal. Included in a Collection of Four Hundred Portraits.
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Tunbridge Spa in the Eighteenth Century.Engraving After a Painting by Thomas Loggon.
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Quacks Taylor, Mapp and Ward with Twelve Honest Physicians. Mock Coat of Arms by Hogarth, 1736
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James Hallett, The Sussex Quack, 1795
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Hallett’s Handbill Cures For The Incurable with the Help of God
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Healing Waters on Tap: The Ancient Clerks Well At Clerkenwell, London. From an Early Nineteenth Century Print
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Perkins Metallic Tractors. White Magic for a Red Nose. A Caricature by James Gillray, 1757-1815
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The Oxytonor, an Essential Element in American Gas-Pipe Therapy. From Nostrums and Quackery, American Medical Association,1912
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The Boston Electric Belt-The Acme of American Electromagnetic Gadgetry. From Nostrums and Quackery, American Medical Association, 1912 Subscribe with RSSHUGGER
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January 11, 2008
Poetry
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Making A Difference
by: Unknown
If each grain of sand were to say:
One grain does not make a mountain,
There would be no land.
If each drop of water were to say:
One drop does not make an ocean,
There would be no sea.
If each note of music were to say:
Each note does not make a symphony,
There would be no melody.
If each word were to say:
One word does not make a library,
There would be no book.
If each brick were to say:
One brick does not make a wall,
There would be no house.
If each seed were to say:
One seed does not make a field,
There would be no harvest.
If each of us were to say:
One person does not make the difference,
There would never be love and peace on earth.
You and I do make the difference,
Begin today and make the difference.
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January 9, 2008
Antiquarian
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ON AUCTION
From The Complete Works of Charlotte Bronte And Her Sisters Published by The Kelmscott Society,New York
This Is
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (Acton Bell)
With Illustrations from Photographs
Complete Tight Contents In 392 Pages/53 Chapters with the Conclusion,,Beginning with To J. Halford,Esq., and 7 Plates
Rare Second and Final Novel by Anne Bronte (Acton Bell)
Anne Brontë (pronounced /?br?nt?/) (January 17, 1820 – May 28, 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest of the Brontë literary family. She used the pen name Acton Bell.
She was born in the village of Thornton, near Bradford, Yorkshire, England, the last of six children. After the family moved to Haworth in 1821 where her father, Patrick Brontë, was appointed perpetual curate, Anne’s mother, Maria Branwell Brontë, died of cancer. In 1825, her two eldest siblings, Maria and Elizabeth died of tuberculosis contracted at the Clergy Daughters’ boarding school at Cowan Bridge, Lancashire. Much has been written about the influence of these deaths on Brontë and her remaining siblings as well as its possible influence on their writings.
Anne was educated at Miss Wooler’s school at Roe Head, Mirfield. Between 1839 and 1845 she worked as a governess while writing in her spare time, which she had begun to do in early childhood with her two surviving sisters, Charlotte and Emily. Their first publication, a volume of poetry, was released under a pseudonym in 1846, a year after she began her first novel, Agnes Grey. It was published within a month of Charlotte’s novel Jane Eyre and was bound in three volumes with her sister Emily’s novel Wuthering Heights. Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was published in 1848, shortly before the deaths of her brother Branwell and her sister Emily in September and December of 1848 respectively.
Anne died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the seaside resort of Scarborough, England, where she had gone to convalesce after a prolonged illness. A blue plaque on the wall of the town’s Grand Hotel marks her place of death. She was buried in the town’s Saint Mary’s Churchyard.
Remembered as the most pious of the three Brontë sisters, Anne was a Christian universalist, believing that all people will eventually be saved. She discussed that belief in a December 1848 letter the Rev. David Thom.
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January 7, 2008
Poetry
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Hudibras in Three Parts
Written In The Time Of The Late Wars
by Samuel Butler,Esq.
with a Life of the Author,Annotations, and an Index.
Published 1856 by S. Andrus And Son Hartford
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Samuel Butler (4 December 1612 – 18 June 1680) was born in Strensham, Worcestershire and baptised 14 February 1613. He is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical burlesque poem on Puritanism entitled Hudibras.
He was the son of a farmer and was educated at the King’s School, Worcester, under Henry Bright whose teaching is recorded favourably by Thomas Fuller a contemporary writer in his Worthies of England. In early youth he was page to the Countess of Kent, and thereafter clerk to various Puritan justices, some of whom are believed to have suggested characters in Hudibras. Through Lady Kent he met John Selden who influenced his later writings. He also tried his hand at painting but was reportedly not very good at it; one of his editors reporting that “his pictures served to stop windows and save the tax” (on window glass).
After the Restoration he became Secretary to the Lord President of Wales, and about the same time married a Mrs. Herbert, a widow with a jointure, which, however, was lost. In 1663 the first part of Hudibras was published, and the other two in 1664 and 1678 respectively. One fan was Charles II, who granted him a pension.
Notwithstanding the popularity of Hudibras, Butler was neglected by the Court and died in 1680, although whether in a state of poverty as often claimed and how much this may have been a self imposed exile either by choice or because of his sharp satirical wit is uncertain. John Aubrey in his notebook jottings called Brief Lives records that Charles II gave him a gift of £300 and that he had been secretary to George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, when the latter was chancellor of the University of Cambridge; Butler was close enough to Buckingham to collaborate with him in The Rehearsal, a satirical play mocking the heroic drama of the time.
Butler is buried in Westminster Abbey. There is a memorial plaque to him in the small village church of Strensham, Worcestershire, near the town of Upton upon Severn, his birthplace.
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