4TB SUPPLEMENT. 



plea but their aiitiquity, and the invincible 

 ob"!,tinacy of their advocates, to recommeud 

 them. 



Of tliis class none stand in a more conspi- 

 cuous or ridiculous point of view than those 

 who, I have observed in the body of the 

 work, persist ' in a maxim never to be obli- 

 terated, that old lares, old times, and old books, 

 are best/ Among these, none are more de- 

 structive in their perseverance than those 

 who, in opposition to every judicious opinion, 

 every enlightened refinement, and experi- 

 mental conviction of the certain danger (and 

 often fatal consequence), continue to give 

 COLD WATER, during the process of purging 

 MEDICINES, under the t'ontemptibh assertion 

 and pretended reliefs that it adds to the ease 

 and ctrtainfij of the operation. 



That this is a deceptive custom, shame- 

 fully persevered in by numbers of the illite- 

 rate and confident, without the knowledge, 

 and against the decided opinion of their em- 

 ployers, is a fact too notorious xvith me to 

 admit of contradiction ; and one of those, 

 upon the ill effects of which has been found- 



