hi ‘Bi OB Boat A Cc CE. 
To prevent, as much as poffible, the growth of fo enormous a traffic, 
it requires that the practice of phyfic, inftead of being cloathed ina 
myftic garb, fhould be put upon a level with the plaineft underftand- 
ing, and the choice and quality of our medicines be rendered as obvious 
and familiar as our food.  Inftiné, in the brute fpecies, furnifhes this 
difcrimination in the moft ample and furprifing manner; and, in the 
primitive ages of the world, when men were rich im years, and dleffed 
with length of days, it was the cuftom to confult individually their own 
complaint and their own cure. To reftore this primitive pra@tice, was 
the godlike aim of the immortal Culpeper, when he compiled this in- 
valuable Work ; for, fince it was the intention of our beneficent Creator 
to providea natural remedy for. all our’ infirmibes. fo it would be dero- 
gatory to his Attributes, .to fappofe the knowledge of them limited to 
a few, or confined to afmall clafs of his creatures. On the contrary, 
this knowledge Jies open to the wayfaring man—it grows in every field, 
and meets us in all, our paths 5 and was ariel given to alleviate 
the pangs } of difeafe—to irradicate, the peftilential feeds of infection—to 
invigorate the conftitution, and to firengthen Nature—eventually re- 
ducing the perils: to which we are cxpeied, and making rofy HEaLTu 
the Companion « of our lives |. 
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