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book. I will beg leave to prefent Mr. Blaine 

 and his pupils with a fhort quotation from that 

 erudite and favourite treatife — A Drench 



AGAINST ALL KiNDS OF DISEASES, from Ve- 



getius, page 393 : — '•' A falutary compofition 

 ought to be prepared againd all kinds of dif- 

 eafes, that fo about the very time they begin^ 

 you may be able to encounter and refill them 

 with fuch things as you have laid up in (lore 

 and have at hand ; for medicine that comes too 

 late is vain, and of no value. Take a pound of 

 myrrh, a pound of male frankincenfe, a pound 

 of the fl^in of a pomegranate brayed, three 

 ounces of pepper, three ounces of faffron, half 

 a pound of the rfed thorn tree, half a pound of 

 the grape-clufler cadmia, half a pound of burnt 

 rofin, half a pound of Pontic wormwood, half a 

 pound of the powder of wild thyme, half a 

 pound of betony, half a pound of centaury, 

 half a pound of fagapenum, half a pound of 

 faxifrage, half a pound of fow-fennel ; after 

 you have brayed and fifted them all well, you 

 may mix them in three fextarii of the befl: ho- 

 ney, and boil them gently for a very little 

 while upon the coals, and afterwards you put 

 them up in a tin or glafs veflel, and keep them 

 for ufe." What a noble compound for an ad- 

 vertifed medicine, which, excluhve of the fa- 

 culty of curing all difeafes, might well defy 

 the united efforts of all the chemifts in Europe 



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