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il’ know-there are many humane and well-difpofed perfons of fenfe and 
<difcernment.who poffefs the difpofition and the ability of fupplying this 
defe& in medical attention to .the poor, did not the dread of doing ill 
Aupprefs their inclination to do good. Such perfons are alfo deterred 
from the moft noble and praife-worthy actions, by the foolifh alarms 
founded in their ears by a fet of men who raife their own importance 
. by magnifying the difficulties of performing cures, who find fault with 
what is truly commendable, and fneer at every attempt to relieve the 
afflicted, which is not fan@ioned by their precife rules. But thefe 
gentlemen muft excufe me for affirming, that the practice of fuch cha- 
titable perfons, a little affifted by medical reading, and directed by the 
fimple dittates of nature, is frequently more fuccefsful than the practice 
of profeflional men, who are fo intent upon dy/ing the patient, that 
things of greater import are negleCted and forgotten. 
_ To affift the well-meant endeavours of the humane and benevolent in 
relieving diftrefs, and eradicating difeafe, is an attempt, which J truft 
will meet the countenance and fupport of every fober friend to fociety. 
Tam well aware, that he who ftands forward to promote the public 
welfare, at the expence of a particular profeffion, muft excite Cuiity, 
and draw upon him the clamonr of interefted individuals. But the 
folid comforts refulting from a fenfe of doing good, and the refle@tion 
of becoming inftrumental in preferving the health of thoufands, farpafs - 
the fleeting praifes of the eS multitude, or the {miles of felf-exalted 
and | ambitious, men, 
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- CULPEPER’s 
