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dered by the physician wagid effect a cure; and many times 
when the patient is seemingly well and not aware of his own 
weakness, will overdo or take cold, and thereby overdo all 
that has been done for him—and then the doctor is blamed 
and the patient discouraged—many times sinks down in des- 
‘pair, and is thereby brought to an untimely grave. Others 
are too poor to follow up enough, even of proper medicine, 
to effect a cure, and therefore a cure is not effected, and still 
remain sick, There are a certain class of people that are_ 
too stingy and: niser- ~ hat they had rather be sick and 
even die, than let their money, go, even if they knew they 
would be cured if they took: the medicine that would effect a 
cure. They will try to bargain with the doctor to cure or no 
pay, and if they happen to fall in with any one foolish enough 
to make such a bargain with them, and they get the medi- — 
cine, and get cured or not, they will not pay. They will — 
want the doctor to wait three or six months, and they will . 
expose and try themselves, and if they ever fail or take cold, 
then the doctor has not curéd them, and will call him all to 
naught and swear they. wl not pay him 5 and if possible. 
will make a barg th some other doctor of the 
wil got. she meditina of hia and promise to pay. in a.short. 
time—but, alas, that short time never comes—sick or well the 
doctor is cheated out of his medicine, and the libertine can 
spend his money in the grog-shop, or at the theatre, and 
houses of ill fame, and at last they die poor wretches, 
whether they are poor or sick ; for if they are not born of. 
water and of the Spirit, they are of all men the most miser-_ 
able, There are others that have to work for a living and 
cannot spend time to be cured, as. it is necessary that the _ 
laws‘of Nature should be regarded. There are others that 
will wait till to-morrow or next week, when it is too late; 
