[ 437 ] 



ment of the diforder which they were intended to 

 remedy: a condition furely fufficient to fatisfy any 

 reafonable perfon. 



The common people are too apt to eftimate the 

 efficacy of medicines, as they do that of other things, 

 by their pecuniary value and their fcarcity. They 

 have no idea that Providence has made the mod 

 ufeful things in medicine, as well as food, cheap and 

 common, and that expencc in fuch articles is oftener 

 neceflary to flatter and comply with effeminate de- 

 licacy, than to add to the real efficacy of a remedy. 

 The poor who are in hofpitals do not receive, in 

 proportion to their numbers, lefs relief than the rich 

 in their fplendid apartments; though in the former 

 cafe nothing be conceded to prejudice, fancy, and 

 caprice; and in the latter, it makes the mod im- 

 portant confederation. It is incumbent, therefore, 

 on all who take the charge of the lower people 

 when fick, to combat this miftaken opinion, and to 

 endeavour, if poflible, to convince them, that the 

 bed remedies are in many inftances the cheapeft. 



Thofe who take the charge of fick perfons fhould 

 be cautious that the fame courfe of medicines be not 

 continued too long a time together. It fhould be 

 underftood, that medicines (at leaft the greateft 



F 2 part 



