• General disregard for health and physicians in 18th century
  • (Especially, though not exclusively, among lower social order)
• Observation on Königslutter, 1753
  • "[Local people] apply only household remedies, and [then] await either their recovery or death without ever seeing a physician."
• Holzminden, 1755
  • "[The common man is] of such a mind that he prefers to use a foreign quack, shepherd, or cowherd than to let himself be treated free by an experienced physician."
• Stadtoldendorf, 1767
  • "Almost everyone lets their sick people languish in misery, without the least succor and [allows them] to perish wretchedly."

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