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dages, and cataplasms, and with hand-books — books, says 

 the inventory of the estate, " both of physic and chyrur- 

 gery, with one saw and six other instruments for a 

 chyrurgeon." But when he found his outfit of science and 

 materia medica unequal to the exigency, he did what any 

 sensible professional man would have done — called in a 

 consulting physician. If there were time, I should like 

 to read to you from the report of the case made to Gov- 

 ernor Bradford by that estimable " chyrurgeon and physi- 

 tian," Deacon Samuel Fuller, because it shows how blood- 

 letting and catechising travelled hand in hand, and it also 

 shows a wholesome belief in a personal devil prevailing in 

 this section. If you have, by any means, been led to re- 

 gard the " ould deluder, Satan," as a perquisite of the Bay 

 Colony, as a product or appanage exclusively of the North 

 Shore, I beg you to observe that your own saintly Dr. 

 Fuller, in his letter, from which I shall read a line, not 

 only recognizes our old friend, the father of mischief, at 

 sight, but even regards the North Shore potentate as a 

 pretty fair match for the beneficent powers of the universe. 

 Here is one of Dr. Fuller's despatches to his home gov- 

 ernment, if you will allow me to read from it, showing 

 that theological contention at that time came as easy as 

 blood-letting. He writes : . . . " I have been at Mat- 

 apan, at the request of Mr. Warham, and let some twenty 

 of these people blood ; I had conference with them 'til I 

 was weary. Mr. Warham holds that the visible church 

 may consist of a mixed people, godly, and openly ungod- 

 ly ; upon which point we had all our conference, to which, 

 I trust, the Lord will give a blessing. . . . We have 

 some privy enemies in the bay, but (blessed be God) 

 more friends ; . '. . oppressors there is not wanting, 

 and Satan is busy ; but, if the Lord be on our side, who 

 can be against us? . . . Captain Endecott (my dear 



