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the fame as other do6lors generally do, who are 

 totally ignorant of the nature and properties of 

 medicine, who are not apprifed of the neceflary 

 relation between caufes and efFe6ls, and who 

 never fatigue their brains with (ludying the 

 do£lrine of analogies ; yet he could bleed, row- 

 el, or glyfler, fcald for the. poll-evil, peg and 



bore, give a piffing, or a g drink ; and 



(or elfe he lied) cure cows of the murrain, and 

 flieep of the red water, young women of the 

 ague and yellows, and old women of the 

 trumps and rheumatifm ; nay, for any thing I 

 can tell, might be equal to the celebrated Dr. 



K of Stanmore, the rival of the fage Dr, 



*****^. This fkilful leach went into my 

 ftyes, and cut off about half the tail from a con- 

 fiderable number of the fatteft of the hogs ; 

 and, about an hour afterv/ards, I was fent for in 

 great hafte to bind them up, that the patients 

 might not bleed to death, and there the matter 

 ended ; for I have never fet eyes on the Do6lor, 

 or heard tale or tiding of him, from that hour 

 to this*. 



By the difcourfo and publications of the fu-» 

 periors of this clafs, a man with a very mo- 

 derate flock of information will readily appre- 

 ciate their abihties ; as to their publications, the 

 common mode is, the farrier or leach empties 

 his budget, or rather rehearfes his twenty, f or ty^ 

 or fifty years experknce, before fome apothe- 

 cary 



