MISCELLANEOUS. 



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approbation. I have lately disco- 

 vered so many antidotes to jjojm- 

 latiun, fair, legal, and even in the 

 opinion of some, honourable as 

 well as fashionable, that I hope no 

 nation, organized as ours is, will 

 ever be afraid of being too popu- 

 lous, or take it into their heads 

 that they have conquered •' death 

 and the grave." 



These medical writers who have 

 been at the pains to write systems, 

 inform us that the human species is 

 liable to so many disorders, that I 

 am surprised there should be a 

 living being on the earth. Dr. 

 Cullen's list of diseases amounts to 

 150; thatof Sauvageto315 ; that 

 of Linnaeus to 328 ; that of Vogel 

 to 560 ; and Sagar, a later writer, 

 contents himself with 351. Cullen's 

 must be evidently too few, because 

 it bears no proportion to any of 

 the others. Let us then strike a 

 kind of balance, and console those 

 who dread excessive population, by 

 informing them that mankind are 

 provided with three hundred and 

 ffin'five mortgi diseases. 



To this three hundred and fifty 

 diseases, let us add one thousand 

 doctors, which in this country is, 

 I am told, a moderate computation ; 

 about two thousapd apothecaries 

 and surgeons, and an equal number 

 of quacks, or what is the same, 

 quack medicines, and I flatter my- 

 self we shall be enabled to keep 

 our population within very decent 

 bounds. But if all this be not 

 enough, I have still a very hand- 

 some reserve in the following arti- 

 cles, all either strictly Jegal, or 

 strictlyhonourableand fashionable, 



namely. 



The Gin-shop, 

 The Lottery, 

 The Garning-Table, 

 The Third Dottle, 

 Broken Hearts, 

 Unbroken Horses, 



and, now and then, 

 A little War ! 



I am, Sir, 

 Your humble Servant, 



A Calculator. 



POETRY. 



