OBSERVATIONS. ii 



I fliall only convey an oblique hint at thofe 

 catchpenny fliifts, or abridgments, from the 

 authors before fpoken of, publifhed under the 

 titles of ** Ten Minutes Advice;" ** The 

 *' Pocket Farrier/' &c. &c. and proceed to 

 a few obfervations upon the wonderful difcGve^ 

 ries, prolix defcriptions^ tedious digrejjions, and 

 ajlmijhing tales, of Henry Bracken (medi- 

 cine dodor), who, to his diploma, which he 

 boafts of in his preface, adds the flrangeft com- 

 plication of language, for a medical author 

 and phyfician, that ever difgraced a candidate 

 for critical diffedion. However bad the com- 

 pliment may be to my own underfl;anding, or 

 largely it may tend to difplay my w^ant of 

 tafte, I can neither condefcend to imitate him 

 in the fublimity of his ftyle or the fertility 

 of his medical invention : nor {hall I prefumc 

 to copy fo great an original^ by introducing 

 *^ A Tale of a Tub" in every page foreign to 

 the matter in queftion, merely for the purpofc 

 of fwelling this work to a fize that may con- 

 tribute to Its difgrace; referving to myfelf one 

 confolation — if it does not become entitled to 

 approbation for its utility^ neither pique or pre^ 

 judice fhall have juft caufe to condemn it for 

 its prolixity. 



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