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vernment, whofe STAMP of approbation 

 they are in poffeffion of j and a report is in cir- 

 culation that one is at prefent preparing at the 

 office for theirjfeZ? difpenfation, with the very 

 emphatical infcription of ** Kill or cure by 

 ^* a(fl of parliament.'* 



A long experience, and want of faflilonable 

 fiexiJ3ility, has eftabli/lied in me fo great a 

 degree of incredulity, that I am totally infen- 

 fible to the novelty of a 7nan in a quart bottle y 

 a ghoft in Cock-lane^ the taking off one half of 

 a horfe's head to relieve the other ^ or curing 

 every (incurable) difeafe to which human na- 

 ture is liable, by a mercurial drop ^ an antimo^ 

 nial pilly a vegetable fyrup, or an at her eat 

 fpirit: I fhall defcend therefore from the fub- 

 limity of io much eminence^ and, gently glid- 

 ing into the vale of reafon, refume the 

 original path from which it will be undoubt- 

 edly thought by some I have digreffed much 

 too long. 



It confequcntly becomes necefiary to obferve 



that, upon whatever part this difeafe has taken 



its feat, it has been confidered by almoft all 



parties, and through almoft all experiments, 



U 4 abfolutely 



