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the public; not that I pretend to any fuperior difin- 

 tereftednefs ; on the contrary, I have ferved the 

 public fome years, and I conceive that I merit my 

 reward. 



Yet, notwithftanding this, I make no doubt of 

 being taxed with empiricifm by many, who are either 

 too dull to be generally ufeful, or too envious to 

 witnefs any other fuccefs than their own without re- 

 pining: but to this tax I do not plead guilty; for, 

 in the firft place, I will never make up medicines for 

 general diftribution, but for fuch complaints as ap- 

 pear in almofl every inftance under the fame form, 

 and require in nearly all cafes the fame remedies. 

 In the next place, I pretend to few fecrets : fome of 

 my recipes, I do believe, have never before been 

 compounded, and fome of the drugs of which thefe 

 recipes are formed are not in general ufe; but in ge- 

 neral cafes, I pretend to no noflrums ; I only ufe 

 the bell drugs, which I more judicioufly compound, 

 and with which I offer the fuperior advantage of 

 more general inftru6lion. To prove, likewife, that 

 this arrangement is not founded on empiricifm, I 

 need only cite the regular treatife that accompanies 

 each of thefe medicines, which treatife holds up to 

 view in as confpicuous a light, every other remedy 

 proper for the complaint it treats on, as that, or thofe 

 I offer ready prepared. This treatife, likewife, af- 

 fe6ls no myftery in the compound, nor attributes to 



