William Buzaglo


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William Buzaglo was an English inventor; died in London in 1788. His first claim to distinction was his introduction of stoves made on a new plan, and intended for the heating of large public buildings. He afterward practised medicine and professed to be able to cure the gout without drugs, by muscular exercise alone. Whatever may have been the real efficacy of his method — which seems analogous to the modern massage — he was generally regarded as a quack because of the nature of his advertisement, abounding, as it did, in praise for himself. His manifesto was humorously parodied by Captain Grose in a handbill, given with a caricature, entitled "Patent Exercise, or Les Caprices de la Goutte".


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