XX PREFACE. 



medical adventurer, who having failed as a 

 fharmacopoliji at the weft end of the town 

 (as did his fucceflbr alfo), they, In rotation^ 

 adopted the alternative of neceffity, in pom- 

 poufly advertifing ** Horfe medicines for the 

 " ufe of the nobility and gentry;" how well 

 they fucceeded the creditors of both can mojl 

 feelingly teftify; and of their confipofitions the 

 reader will be beft enabled to form a compe-« 

 tent opinion, when, in the courfe of the work 

 72oJirums and quack medicines become the ne- 

 ceffary fubjed:s of animadverfion. 



CONTENTS. 



