More About Moore: The Celebrated Worm Doctor and his Practice in London, 1699–1737
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
John Moore (d. April 1737), apothecary, is probably best known as the retailer of powders and ointments for treating tapeworm and other worm infections, which he advertised in London papers with formulaic attestations by satisfied customers and announcements of worms of sensational size and conformation. One such ad, for example, informs readers of the worms ‘to be seen at the said Mr Moor’s, viz. one 30 Foot long, another 5 and an half, being part of one of 16 Yards odd Inches; another 6 Yards and half, another 50 Foot, and another in form of a Bird, but very small’.1 If Moore’s fame did not arise singlehandedly from his own prodigious volume of peculiar and graphic advertisements, it was undoubtedly enhanced by the publication of satires such as Alexander Pope’s ballad To the Ingenious Mr Moore, Author of the Celebrated Worm-Powder (1716). No doubt readers could locate precisely where Moore vended his medicines. We know considerably less today: that his shop the Pestle and Mortar in Abchurch Lane by 1736 moved to Laurence Pountney Lane, on the left-hand side going south from Cannon Street.2 Little else has been discovered about the man the Scriblerians loved to mock.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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