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better grace, when I can afifure the public, one of the 

 very lirft advertifers in this way was a medical ad- 

 venturer, who having failed as a pharmacopoliji^ at the 

 welt end of the town (as did his fucceflbr alfo), they, 

 in rotatioTiy adopted the alternative of neceffity, in 

 pompoufly advertifing " Horfe medicines for the ufe 

 ^'' of the nobility and gentry." How well they fuc- 

 ceeded, the creditors of both can moft feelingly teflify 3 

 and of their compofitions the reader will be beft en- 

 abled to form a competent opinion, when, in the 

 courfe of the work, noftrums and quack medicines be- 

 come xh^ neceilary fubiedsof animadverfion. 



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