lo OBSERVATIONS. 



lary thofe who dill more ufifortimately fall 

 into the pradice. 



It is impofTible (without taking too much 

 time from the reader, or too much room in 

 the work) to indulge a moft predominant wifli 

 of enlarging upon the unaccountable abfurdi* 

 ties and aftoniihing proofs of ignorance in the 

 properties, power, and ufe of medicine, that 

 might be juilly quoted (from this mofiftrous 

 prodigy of modern inftrudlion) to refcue from 

 the rapacity of literary impofition that clafs of 

 mankind who fo frequently become the dupes 

 of fpecious plaufibility. As it would afford 

 but little information or amufement to enume- 

 rate the follies or copy the illiterate prefer ip- 

 tions to juftify my own obfervations, or court a 

 coincidence from others, I (hall content my- 

 felf with one affurance to the public, that, hav^ 

 ing taken the opinions of fome of the faculty, 

 (upon the recipes already promulgated in the 

 trifling part of the produdion hitherto gone 

 forth) they perfedly agree with me-^there are 

 a variety introduced that would in a very few 

 hours inevitably relieie the fubjed from every 

 pojjibility of future pain, Juff'erifig^ or difqute^ 

 tude. 



I fhall 



