1^8 • THE RURAL SOCRATES. 



* never return hom^ in a carriage. Gold and wealth in 



* general, vain phantoms of happinefs, have no effe(St on 



* their minds. They have often refufed two or three 



* 'louis-d'ors from the rich, as a pay too ample ; taking 



* from theiTi only one or two crowns at the moft. Ev- 

 ' ery Tnefday they attend at Kcmiremont, and on other 



* days at Plombieres and other places : having fomc- 



* times forty poor patients in one ipot, with traftures and 



* maims ; whom they vifit and drefs, gratis, or without 



* regarding whv^t is paid to them. Ofrentim.es they fup- 



* ply their patients with money to enable them to rettarn 



* home. — They give them alfo their ointment ; which 



* is their fok fecret and treafure. They affirm that 



* the receipt of this belongs to their family ; it is an 



* outward application, known by the name of the Val- 



* dajon ointment. This remedy is in much eile-em in 



* Lorraine ; being relolvent and good for the nerves, 

 ^ having qualities at once foftening and corroborating. 

 ^ It is prefcribed by the family in cafes of bruifcs, flrains, 



* diflocations, and fractures, and alfo for wounds where 



* there is danger of mortification : It gives eafe likewife 



* in the pains of gout and of rheumatifm* It is fimply 

 ^ fpread on linen, without being foftened with heat.' — 

 £Thus far M. Moraud, — We now return to our French 

 Tranflator.] 



"Who (fays the French Tranfiator) after feeing the 

 example of the Kliyoggs, the Pignous, and the Valda- 

 30ns, can retain a doubt, that Dr. Hirzel had theflrong- 

 €i\ reafon for nfiirming, that the clafs of peafants as 

 inuch delcrves the attention of the philofopher, as any 

 ^ther whatever. ^ ^K^j^Let the true fage who is friendly 

 to humanity feck after men who are truly virtuous ; let 

 h\m follow theiu into their obfcurity, and into the claf- 

 fo which to the boalfed world of faihion feem the mofl 

 abjecfl. He will there certainly find many a Kliyogg, a 

 Pignou, and a "V^aidajon, at prcfcnt unknown ; for true 

 .virtue fhuns inTpet^ion, and confhnlly remains attach^sd 



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