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THE
NARRATIVE
OF
DR. ROBERT NORRIS,
CONCERNING
THE STRANGE AND DEPLORABLE FRENZY OF
AN OFFICER OF THE CUSTOM-HOUSE.
Being an exact Account of all that passed between the said Patient and the Doctor till this present Day; and a full Vindication of himself and his Proceedings from the extravagant Reports of the said Mr. John Dennis.
Democritus.
First published by J. Morphew, in 1713[1].
IT is an acknowledged truth, that nothing is so dear to an honest man as his good name, nor ought he to neglect the just vindication of his character,
- ↑ The history of Mr. Dennis is to be seen in Jacob's Lives of the Poets; or in Mr. Pope's Dunciad, among the notes upon which the curious reader may find some extracts from his writings. The occasion of this narrative sufficiently appears from the doctor's own words. A mistake of Mr. Granger's, in respect to Dr. Case's attending John Dennis in his frenzy, is pointed out in Dr. King's Works, vol. iii. p. 302.
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