t-d OBSERVATIONS. 



larly thofe who ftjll more unfortunately fall int» 

 the pradice. 



It is impoflible (without taking too much, 

 time from the reader, or too much room in 

 the work) to indulge a moft predominant wifh 

 of enlarging upon the unaccountable abfurdi- 

 ties and aftonifhing proofs of ignorance in the 

 properties, power, and ufe of medicine, that 

 might be juftly quoted from this monjlrous 

 prodigy of modern inftrudtion, to refcue from 

 the rapacity of literary impofition that clafs of 

 mankind who fo frequently become the dupes 

 of fpecious piaufibility. As it would aiford 

 but little information or amufement to enu- 

 merate the follies or copy the illiterate pre- 

 fcriptions to juftify my own obfervations, or 

 court a coincidence from others, I fhall content 

 myfelf with one alTurance to the public, that 

 having taken the opinions of fome of the fa- 

 culty, (upon the recipes already promulgated, 

 in the trifling part of the produdion hitherto 

 gone forth) they perfectly agree with me — 

 tliere are a variety introduced that would in a 

 very few hours inevitably relieve the fubjedt 

 from every pojjibility of future pain, Jufferingy 



©r difquietude, 



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