William Buzaglo

William Buzaglo was an 18th-century self-proclaimed English inventor. He claimed to have invented a new plan of stoves to heat large public buildings, which was the first of his claims. He later practised medicine and claimed a cure for gout through regular muscular exercise alone. His method seems to have been something similar to modern physiotherapy or simple massage, but during his time he was generally considered a quack, mainly because of the "aboundingly" self-praising advertisements that he made for himself. His style of advertisement was humorously parodied by Captain Grose, an English draughtsman and lexicographer, with a caricature in a handbill titled "Patent Exercise, or Les Caprices de la Goutte". Buzaglo died in London in 1788.

William Buzaglo
Died1788
London
NationalityEnglish
OccupationInventor
Les caprices de la goute, ballet arthritique.
A cartoon from 1783 depicting Buzaglo's establishment for curing the gout by means of physical exercise.

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    References

     This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "William Buzaglo". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

    • Lysons, Environs of London, iii. 479
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