Bartholomew Dominiceti

(b. 1735, Venice – d. 1782, United Kingdom )

Gender: M

Dr Bartholomew Dominiceti was an Italian quack doctor who operated medicinal baths in Cheyne Walk in Chelsea, London and in Bristol. He was very popular and was said to have treated 16,000 people with ‘baths, fumigations and frictions’. His critics said that no considerable cures had been effected by his ‘almost magical delusions’, but it sounds rather like a modern spa, and contemporary medicine often did more harm with its bleeding and purges. Dominiceti went bankrupt in 1782. ['Dr Dominiceti's Baths at Chelsea', Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 99, part 1, 1829, pp. 6-7]

Mentioned in 1 letters

Title	EMCO ID
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to Mary Robinson	1800

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