- Sally Mapp
Sarah "Crazy Sally" Mapp (? - 1737) was a famous English lay
bonesetter .Family
Mapp presumably learned her trade from her father, an 18th century bonesetter. [ [http://www.chirobase.org/05RB/BCC/01.html Bonesetting, Chiropractic, and Cultism by Samuel Homola] (1963)]
She was the sister of
Lavinia Fenton , who played Polly Peachum in "The Beggar's Opera " in 1728 and later marriedCharles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton .Practice
The town of
Epsom offered Mapp 100guinea s yearly to reside there and set bones in 1736. [Haggard HW. "Devils, Drugs, and Doctors". Blue Ribbon Books, New York, 1929.] She saw patients twice a week at theGrecian Coffee House . Supposedly, she cured the spinal deformity ofSir Hans Sloane 's niece. [cite book | last = Lock | first = Stephen | title = The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford Oxfordshire | year = 2001 | isbn = 0192629506 | page = pg208 | url = http://books.google.ca/books?id=TKIzxSZ_-UwC&pg=PA208&lpg=PA208&dq=Sally+Mapp&source=web&ots=jN05cJ-vQ1&sig=aXbXi3MXwCuq5Nx8l8kxsldQ3_E&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPA208,M1 ]Later life
Mapp was once mistaken for one of George II's mistresses by an angry mob. [cite book | last = Gordon | first = Richard | title = The Alarming History of Medicine | publisher = St. Martin's Press | location = New York | year = 1994 | isbn = 0312104111 | page = pg192] She married an abusive
footman , who absconded with her money.She died in
Seven Dials .In art
A song about Mapp appears in the play at
Lincoln's Inn Fields , "The Husband's Relief ".Her portrait appears at the top of
William Hogarth 's The Company of Undertakers (Consultation of Quacks) (1736).George Cruikshank 's portrait "Sarah "Crazy Sally" Mapp Bone Setter" [http://www.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_583542/SARAH-CRAZY-SALLY-MAPP.html] is similar.References
*cite journal |author=FITZWILLIAMS DC |title=Mrs. Mapp, or crazy Sally Mapp |journal=Med World |volume=74 |issue=16 |pages=463–6 |year=1951 |month=June |pmid=14852318 |doi= |url=
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