XIV PREFACE. 



exceeded the diurnal progressions of a hacknet/^ 

 coach; and whose great anxiety for the general 

 good never surpassed the idea of cent, per cent, m 

 the circulation. This observation comes with a 

 much better grace^, when I can assure the public, 

 one of the very first advertisers in this way was a 

 medical adventurer^ who having failed as a phar- 

 inacopolist, at the west end of the town (as did his 

 successor also), they, mroiatioiiy adopted the alter- 

 native of necessity, in pompously advertising '''Horse 

 '' medicines for the use of the nobility and gentry.*' 

 How well they succeeded, the creditors of hotlt can 

 fiiost feci in gly testify ; and of their compositions the 

 reader will be best enabled to form a competent 

 opinion, when, in the course of the work, nostrums 

 and qiiack medicines become the necessary subjects 

 pf animadversion. 



