IMPROVED. 23t 



Antlmom do either purge upwards or downwards, 

 or are Diapho'-etick and Sudorifick. 



Ward's Pill end Drop are moil certainly Prepara- WaYd\ Pill 

 tions flora Antimony ; and I could eafily tell the and Drop 

 Rer.der of n. Fill and Drop, of like Operation with ^rcpaia- 

 thoie Quack Medicines, which may be prepared /(^"in^^ony 

 from Antimo7iy. But as no one Medicine can fuit 

 all Conititutions, tho' many that are robuft and 

 ftron^ may for a while fland the Shock of thefe vi- 

 olent Emeticks, dffr. and find Relief for the pre- 

 fent ; I lay, for this Reafon I forbear the Mention 

 of any Medicine as a Catholicon, rather choofing 

 to treat of Diltcnipers in a Way different from the 

 Gentlemen who ride Poll for Bread, and fluff the 

 News-Papers with their fulfome Nonfenfe. 



I fhall clofe my Remarks upon this valuable Mi- 

 neral in Phyfick, with taking Notice, that in a 

 Manner all the different Preparations from Antimo- 

 m, how fevere foever they are alone, may be fo 

 managed in a skilful Hand, as to operate little, or 

 perhaps not at all in the Prim^e Vi^ or firfl Paffages, 

 which are reckon'd the Stomach, Intrjlmes, and 

 their Appendages ; nor will their Operation be per- 

 ceived until they arrive at the fmallefl Paffages. 

 And it is then thofe mighty Things are to be effec- 

 ted which cure the Gout, Pox, Evil, (sfc. in Men, 

 vvliich are too much the Opprobrium Medicorum ; 

 as alfo the Farcin, isfc. in Horfes. And it is cer- 

 tainly the want of this Knack of converting the 

 moi't eihcacious Catharticks into Alteratives, that 

 makes the common Pradlice in chronic Cafes fo 

 little to the Parpofe. And no doubt but at this 

 Time there are, in the Hands of fome Empiricks, 

 Medicines upon this Bafis which are too much a 

 Shame to Learning and Educv.ticn. But how can. 

 it be otherwife, when Practice is calculated rather 

 for the Eafe and Difpatch of a great deal of Bufi- 

 nefs, than to cure Patients ; whereby Cafes of Dif- 

 ficulty are not worth the Cure of any but Quacks, 

 and fuch as venture at Random. I nov/ beg the 



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