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nieal myftery, or medical difquifition, by 

 enlarging upon the means of the mercurial 

 particles entering into contact with the blood ; 

 its power of attenuation, gradual diffolution 

 of the fluids and gentle ftimulation of the 

 folids, (which muft at all times hang heavy 

 upon the mind of the unfcientific inquirer) 

 we muft let our abbreviated allufion fuf- 

 fice, as a more fatisfadlory mode of intel- 

 ligent information, than a tedious chain o{ 

 phyficai definition, that, it may be thought, 

 has been already introduced by much too 

 often. 



In this tribute to the almoft incredible 

 effecSs derived from the judicious and falutary 

 interpofition of mercurial cathartics, 

 I beg to difclaim every idea of patronizing 

 fuch compofitions, prepared from the pre- 

 fcriptive fcraps of antiquity, in the poffeffiou 

 of every bellows blower in the kingdom ; not 

 more in refped; to the probable difpropor-^ 

 tion and certain danger of their ingredi- 

 ents, than the abfurd, improper,. a.nd indif- 

 criminate mode of introduction. Of thefe 

 preparations, as of the various noftrums and 

 quack medicines of the prefent day, I hol4 



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