10 OBSERVATIONS, 



ceeded every thing prescribed before their 

 time, the magnitude and almost unlimited 

 number of dangerous articles, introduced in 

 their recipes, will sufficiently demonstrate to 

 those who are so truly u/ifortunate as to have 

 the perusal fall to their lot ; but more par- 

 ticularly those who still more imfortunately i'd\\ 

 into the practice. 



It is impossible (without taking too miicli 

 time from the reader, or too much room in 

 the work) to indulge a most predominant wish 

 of enlarging upon the unaccountable absur- 

 dities and astonishing proofs of ignorance in 

 the properties, power, and use of medicine, 

 that might be justly quoted from this mon- 

 strolls prodigy of modern instruction, to rescue 

 from the rapacity of literary imposition that 

 class of mankind who so frequently become 

 the dupes of specious plausibility. As it 

 would afford but little information or amuse- 

 ment to enumerate the follies, or copy the 

 iiliterate prescriptions, ta justify my own 

 observations, or court a coincidence from 

 others, I shall content myself with one assur- 

 ance to the public, that having taken the 

 opinions of some of the faculty, (upon the 



