204. COLDS, Sec. 



every page with ^' Gibson direds this," or 

 *• Bartlet the other/'^ but communicate 

 feme inftrudions from the dictates of NA- 

 TURE AND REASON, who have been hi- 

 therto mofl: infamouily treated, and moft 

 fhamefuUy abandoned through every fyftem of 

 equeftrian medical pradice. In conjunction 

 with this it may not be inapplicable to intro- 

 duce a few obiervations rcfpedting the mode 

 of adminiftration I have long fince adopted, and 

 endeavoured to (irengthen upon every oppor- 

 tunity. For inflance, to condem.n and explode 

 upon every poffible occafion the old and flo- 

 venly method of giving medicines of almofl 

 every kind in drinks, and the equally favourite 

 ajminiftration of clysters, where they can 

 by any means be avoided; which forty-nine 

 times out of fifty they very well may) always 

 preferring their incorporation with a majh, or 

 the contents in a ial/^ where circumftances will 

 permit. 



But this plan generally meets oppofition 

 from the VULCANIAN ADVOCATES for 



ancient pradlice, .who would cis foon relinquifh 

 iheir leathern aprons as their opinions. The 

 prodigious and confequential ceremony of pro-^ 



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