INTRODUCTION. lill 



It will alfo be a pleafant Medicine. If a Draught 

 of Tindture of Rofes, which will be defcribed in 

 the following Part of this Work, under the Ar- 

 ticle Red Rofe^ be taken after this, it will increafe 



the Power; 



In this Manner the charitable Lady may fupply 

 the Place of the Apothecary, to thofe who could 

 not afford fuch Afliftance : And Experience is fp 

 good a Guide, that fhe will be able in mofl Cafes 



to fave the Expence of the Do6tor alfo : And there 

 will be this Satisfaction in her own Mind, that 

 while ihe deals principally with thofe innocent 

 Sort of Medicines which the Fields afford her, 

 ihe will be in very little Danger of doing Harm. 

 The galenical Phyfic perhaps will be found ef- 

 fectual in many more Cafes, by thofe who Itick 

 to ir folely, than they are aware who do not 

 life it J as to the Mifchief of Medicine, that is al- 

 moft entirely chemical. It would be idle to fay, 



that chemical Medicines do not do great Good; but 

 they require to be in fkillful Hands : When the 



Ignorant employ them. Death is more likely to 

 be the Confequence, than the Relief from the Dif- 

 order any other Way. 



One ufeful Obfervatlon may ferve well to clofe 

 this Introdu6bion. Opiates, and IVfedicines of that 

 kind, to compofe Perfons to reft, and to take off 

 Pain, will be often necelTary; but as they are the 

 moft powerful Medicines the charitable Prad:i- 

 tioner will have to do ^v'thal, they are the moft ca- 

 pable of hoing Harm : The great Care will there- 

 fore lie in the right Ufe of thefe. 



As there are three different Preparations de- 

 fcribed in this Book for anfwering this Purpole, 

 befide the Oplwn^ and that Solution of it in Wine, 

 which is called Laudanum^ I w^ould advife that 

 thefe two latter be ufcd very'feldom. A Syrup 



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