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'' this country are much in the fame predica- 

 " m,ent. Good found beer is always to be 

 preferred." 



I now proceed to treat particularly of dif- 

 eafes, and the art of healing, on which head I 

 muft beg leave to recal the Reader's attention to 

 my profefTions in the Introduftory Chapter to 

 this work, that more may not be expelled from 

 me, than I (land engaged to perform. The res 

 angvjla domi firfl made me phyfician in ordi- 

 nary to my own family, both within doors and 

 without. Should any one be inclined to feek in 

 the moral of the old proverb, the caufe of that 

 reafonable fhare of fuccefs which has ever at- 

 tended my endeavours, I am content: nay, 

 fliould the medical men, through motives of 

 either ridicule or profefTional indignation, think 

 proper to apply to me the celebrated lines of 

 our Epigrammatift, I am prepared to laugh 

 with, or at them, as they themfelves (hall 

 chufe. 



*' Fingunt fe cuncti medicos, Idiota, prophanus 

 " Judjeus, Monachus, Hiftrio, Razor, Anus. 



OWEN EPIC. 



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