COLDS, &c. 2C3 



thing fatisfaclory advanced upon the fuhjec?;:. 

 We have the authority of a century paft to 

 prove they are caufed by " the impetuofity of 

 *' the blood's rufhing into the lungs," or, '' in 

 *' the airveffels," or *' in blood veffcls," or 

 ^' m tubercles, or in ulcers/' or " in too 

 ** full feeding/* &c. Bartlet quotes from 

 Gibson, who refers you to Mark ham, or 

 SoLEYSELL, and Bracken to Burbon, and 

 fo on cid infinitum. We are likewife told 

 " the three lad: diftempers are in general in- 

 ** curable :" you are then inftruded to proceed 

 with mercurial phyfic, giving, in the interme- 

 diate days, the *' cinnaber balls 5 if they fail 

 ** try alterative purges ; to thefe follow cor- 

 *' dial balls, with balfams of Peru and ful- 

 ** phur, flowers of Benjamin, fquills, tar. Sec. 

 *' one to be continued a week or ten days, 

 '' another a fortnight, and a third for two 

 *^ months or longer T When having made this 

 hopeful and expenfive tour through almoft all 

 " the materia medica to cure what is ''ia 

 *' general incurable," you may enjoy the pleaf- 

 ing fenlation of knocking your horfe on the 

 head, and mod feelingly acknowledge '^ the 

 ** remedy worfe than the difeafe." 



I fhall endeavour to avoid this beaten track 



of duplicitVj and not amufe my readers in 



every 



