September 23, 1736. "Mrs. Mapp continues making extraordinary cures: she has now set up an equipage, and on Sunday waited on her Majesty."
Saturday, October 16, 1736. "Mrs. Mapp, the bone-setter, with Dr. Taylor, the oculist, was at the play-house, in Lincoln's-Inn Fields, to see a comedy called 'The Husband's Relief, with the Female Bone-setter and Worm Doctor;' which occasioned a full house, and the following epigram:
"'While Mapp to th'actors shew'd a kind regard,
On one side Taylor sat, on the other Ward:
When their mock persons of the Drama came,
Both Ward and Taylor thought it hurt their fame;
Wonder'd how Mapp cou'd in good humour be—
Zoons! cries the manly dame, it hurts not me;
Quacks without art may either blind or kill;
But[7] demonstration shews that mine is skill.'
"And the following was sung upon the stage:
"'You surgeons of London, who puzzle your pates,
To ride in your coaches, and purchase estates,
Give over, for shame, for your pride has a fall,
And the doctress of Epsom has outdone you all.
Derry down, &c.
"'What signifies learning, or going to school,
When a woman can do, without reason or rule,
What puts you to nonplus, and baffles your art?
For petticoat-practice has now got the start.
"'In physics, as well as in fashions, we find,
The newest has always the run with mankind;
Forgot is the bustle 'bout Taylor and Ward;
Now Mapp's all the cry, and her fame's on record.
"'Dame Nature has given her a doctor's degree,
She gets all the patients, and pockets the fee;
So if you don't instantly prove it a cheat,
She'll loll in her chariot, whilst you walk the street.
Derry down, &c.'"
October 19, 1736, London Daily Post. "Mrs. Mapp, being present at the acting of The Wife's Relief, concurred in the universal applause of a crowded audience. This play was advertised by the desire of Mrs. Mapp, the famous bone-setter from Epsom."
October 21, 1736, "On Saturday evening there was such a concourse of people at the Theatre-royal in Lincoln's-Inn Fields, to see the famous Mrs. Mapp, that several gentlemen and ladies were obliged to return for want of room. The confusion at going out was so great, that several gentlemen and ladies had their pockets picked, and many of the latter lost their fans, &c. Yesterday she was elegantly entertained by Dr. Ward, at his house in Pall-Mall."
"On Saturday and yesterday Mrs. Mapp performed several operations at The Grecian Coffee-house, particularly one upon a niece of Sir Hans Sloane, to his great satisfaction and her credit. The patient had her shoulder-bone out for about nine years."
"On Monday Mrs. Mapp performed two extraordinary cures; one on a young lady of The Temple, who had several bones out from the knees to her toes, which she put in their proper places: and the other on a butcher, whose knee-pans were so misplaced that he walked with his knees knocking one against another. Yesterday she performed several other surprizing cures; and about one set out for Epsom, and carried with her several crutches, which she calls trophies of honour."