Sarah Mapp | |
|---|---|
 Sarah Mapp | |
| Born | c.1706 |
| Nationality | English/British |
Sarah Mapp (nee Wallin) (1706–1737) was a bone setter.
Biography
editEarly life
editThe daughter of John and Jenny Wallin, Mapp was baptised Sarah Wallin on 26 Mark 1706, at Hinton, Chicklade. She a younger brother, Richard, and a sister[who?].[1]
Mapp presumably learned her trade from her father, an 18th century bonesetter.[2]
She was the sister of Lavinia Fenton, who played Polly Peachum in The Beggar's Opera in 1728 and later married Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton.
The town of Epsom offered Mapp 100 guineas yearly to reside there and set bones in 1736.[3] She saw patients twice a week at the Grecian Coffee House. Supposedly, she cured the spinal deformity of Sir Hans Sloane's niece.[4]
Mapp was once mistaken for one of George II's mistresses by an angry mob.[5] She married an abusive footman, who absconded with her money.
She died in Seven Dials.
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 [1] is similar.
References
edit- ^ Corley, T. A. B. (September 2004). "Mapp , Sarah (bap. 1706, d. 1737)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/56037. Retrieved 2009-11-02. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Bonesetting, Chiropractic, and Cultism by Samuel Homola (1963)
- ^ Haggard HW. Devils, Drugs, and Doctors. Blue Ribbon Books, New York, 1929.
- ^ Lock, Stephen (2001). The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press. p. pg208. ISBN 0192629506.
{{cite book}}:|page=has extra text (help) - ^ Gordon, Richard (1994). The Alarming History of Medicine. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. pg192. ISBN 0312104111.
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- FITZWILLIAMS DC (June 1951), "Mrs. Mapp, or crazy Sally Mapp", Med World, 74 (16): 463–6, PMID 14852318
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