204 COLDS, &c. 



every page with ^* Gibson direds this/* or 

 *< Bartlet the other/* but communicate 

 fome inftrudions from the didlates of NA- 

 TURE AND REASON, who have been hi- 

 therto mofl infamoufly treated, and moft 

 ihamefully abandoned through every fyftem of 

 equeftrian medical pra6lice. In conjundlion 

 with this, it may not be inappHcable to intro- 

 duce a few obfervations refpeding the mode 

 of adminiftration I have long fmce adopted, and 

 endeavoured to ftrengthen upon every oppor- 

 tunity. For inftance, to condemn and explode 

 upon every poffible occafion the old and flo- 

 venly method of giving medicines of almofl 

 every kind in DRINKS, and the equally fa- 

 vourite adminiftration of CLYSTERS, where 

 they can by any means be avoided, (which 

 forty-nine times out of fifty they very well 

 may) ; always preferring their incorporation 

 with a 7najl:^ or the contents in a ball^ where 

 circupiftances will permit. 



But this plan generally meets oppofition 

 from the VULCANIAN ADVOCATES for 

 ancient pradlice, who would as foon relinquifli 

 their leathern aprons as their opinions. The 

 prodigious and confequential ceremony of pro- 

 viding 



