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made for the great goddess Diana of the Ephesians, he will 
then pounce upon them, and abuse and trample on them, 
and thereby show his cloven foot. _And of all the doctors 
that I ever was acquainted with, the great quack-salver or 
nitrate of silver eye doctors practice the greatest fraud and 
uses the most subtility and deception of any other doctors I 
ever knew. Therefore I say {to all that are well-wishers to. 
_ themselves, by all the sacred ties that bind us together, and 
by all the sweets of life, and by the awful consequences of 
delay, to fly, fly from the monsters, and take hold of the sim- 
ple means provided for you by the God of Natare, that will 
help your eyes, and in a few months heal them and _ 
be restored to health, and rescued from blindness, and 
be saved at last. For the eye is one of the most tender or- 
gans of any one of the human body, therefore it is best to 
keep at a proper distance from the quack-salver, nitrate of — 
silver, or any other silver eye doctors. “ 
