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government, whofe STAMP of approbation 

 they are in poiTeffion of; and a report is in cir- 

 culation, that one is at prefent preparing at the 

 office for their fole difpenfation, with the very 

 emphatical infcription of ^' Kill or cure by ad 

 "of Parliament." 



A long experience, and a want of fafhionable 

 flexibility, have eftablifhed in me fo great a 

 degree of incredulity, that I am totally infen- 

 iible to the novelty of a 7nan in a quart bottky 

 a ghojt in Cock-lane, the taking off ojie half of 

 a horfe's head to relieve the othery or curing 

 every {jncurable) difeafe to which human 

 nature is liable, by a mercurial drop, an anti^ 

 monial pill, a vegetable fynip, or an cethereal 

 Jph'-it : I fhall defcend therefore from the fub- 

 limity offo vciM^\ eminence, and, gently gliding 

 into the vale of reafon, refume the original 

 path from which it will be undoubtedly 

 thought by some I have digrelTed much too 

 long. 



It confequently becomes neceffary to obferve 



that upon whatever part this difeafe has taken 



its feat, it has been coniidered by almoft all 



parties, and through almoft all experiments, 



U 4 abfolutely 



