T38 FARCY. ^ 



fevere and burning cauilics, very little fliort of 

 adlual fire, were ever calculated, when laid on 

 by leads, to rectify the blood, or promote an 

 incarnation of the fielh ? It muft create afto- 

 nilnment in every mind made calm by time, 

 or cool by experience, that men have lived, 

 who, from a want of knowledge in the proper- 

 ties of medicines, could fo proilitute their 

 ufes ; or others prove fo weak as to tranfmit 

 that proditution to pofterity ! But fo deeply 

 has the injurious and dangerous fyflem taken 

 root among the illiterate, who flick to a ruftic 

 maxim never to be obliterated, that '' old laws, 

 ** old times, old fongs, and old books, are 

 *^ bed,'' and confequently fly to the latter 

 upon every occaiion 5 in whofe inftrudions 

 they have fo much faith, and to whofe con- 

 tents they pay fuch implicit obedience, that 

 the very devil, however great his influence 

 be in other refpeds, will never prevail upon 

 that clafs to change their fyftem. 



That MERCURIALS and antimonials /;2- 

 ter7iaUy, with necefl^ary and occafional cauftics 

 externaUy, will (didated by judgment, and 

 proportioned with difcretion), work wonders, 

 experience and indefatigable attention from 

 men of the moil extenfive abilities has fuffi- 



ciently 



