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of the tinctures recommended in this way are litde 

 elfe than drams concealed under a medicinal dif- 

 guife, and as fuch fhoukt be with equal caution 

 avoided, as far as refpects their becoming habitual. 

 I have more than once feen a habit of this odious 

 kind introduced among women, particularly by 

 thefe means. It is not fo likely to happen to the 

 lower ranks, as to thofe who employ them, for 

 whom this caution is principally meant. 



The laft piece of advice I (ball offer refpects 



QuACKEREY. 



Perhaps there is nothing difgraces the police of 

 this country, more than the numerous impofitions 

 of this kind that are daily advertifed. Scarcely any 

 one of them has not only a greater certainty of 

 fuccefs afcribed to it, but is alledged to be infallible 

 in a greater variety of diforders than are curable by 

 all the articles of the Materia Medica taken col- 

 lectively. Some of thefe boafted remedies are 

 merely frivolous and inert, but others are violent 

 and dangerous in their operation, and highly im- 

 proper to be traded to fuch perfons as thofe who 

 are thus rafhly encouraged to take them in an in- 

 difcriminate manner. A folution of i.rfenic is faid 

 to have been the bafis of a late fpecific foi ftveis 



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