OBSERVATIONS. 11 



recipes already promulgated in the trifling 

 part of the production hitherto gone forth) 

 they perfectly agree with me — there are a 

 variety introduced that would in a very few 

 hours inevitably relieve the subject from every 

 possibility of future pain, sujferingy or dis^ 

 quietude, 



I shall only convey an oblique hint at those 

 catchpenny shifts or abridgments from the 

 authors before spoken of, published under the 

 titles of '* Ten Minutes Advice;" ''The 

 Pocket Farrier/' &c. &c. and proceed to a^ 

 few observations upon the wonderful discove- 

 ries^ prolix descriptions, tedious digressions, and 

 astonishing tales, of Henry Bracken (medi- 

 cinse doctor), who, to his diploma, which he 

 boasts of in his preface, adds, the strangest 

 complication of language, for a medical au- 

 thor and physician, that ever disgraced a can- 

 didate for critical dissection. However bad 

 the compliment may be to my own under- 

 sjtanding, or largely it may tend to display my 

 want of taste, I can i?either condescend to 

 imitate him in the sublimity of his style or 

 the fertility of his medical invention: nor 

 shall I presume to copy so great an original. 



