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be adopted for their various complaints. But at pre- 

 fent I muft content myfelf with laying before the 

 public the outlines only of the improvements I have 

 made, and a iketch of the treatment I purfue in the 

 more prevalent difeafes among them. And though, 

 unaided as I am by any previous inftruction, nothing 

 perfe6l can be expedled, yet it will be found that 

 much has been done towards ameliorating the fuffer- 

 ings of thefe faithful domeftics, there being few of 

 their difeafes I am not enabled to offer fome curative 

 inftrudions relative to, and as few that I cannot point 

 out efficacious remedies for. Thefe remedies, fome 

 of them, I fhall at prefent offer to the public ready 

 compounded, as the only way of reimburfing my- 

 felf for the expenfes I have been at; but the attend- 

 ant treatment is at the fame time detailed, and as I 

 offer thefe remedies univerfally, and place them with- 

 in every one's reach, fo I ftiil think 1 do every thing 

 that may prove ufeful, though I make no doubt I 

 fhall, by the envious and malicious, be taxed with 

 empiricifm. At a future time, when my experiments 

 and attention have made flill farther improvements, as 

 I have before hinted, I fhall give a more detailed 

 publication on this fubject, in which I fhall develope 

 the whole tieatment I purfue in every difeafe, and 

 defcribe at large every remedy 1 ufe. 



But before i proceed farther, I mufl beg leave to 

 fay a few words relative to myfelf, in fome meafure 



