Why couldn’t Bach escape a charlatan?

Fraudsters are, unfortunately, common nowadays but are nothing new for history. Let's see what we can learn from the 1750s, a very well-known German composer, and a little bit less known English doctor, who met each other (only) twice.

Patient

Name: Johann Sebastian Bach

Age: 65

Profession: musician, composer; often works at night, with a candlelight in a dimmed room.

Medical history: gradually deteriorating vision; moderate to high shortsightedness (myopia), recently developed cataract.

Medical recommendations: perform a surgery on the cataract to improve the patient's vision.