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will triumph and trample underfoot the 

 whole rout of its assailants, and its false 

 and hypocritical judges will receive the 

 same condemnation as the wicked Jews. 

 What a poor figure do they cut in my 

 eyes all these grand, conceited magnifi- 

 coes who solemnly admonish Emperors, 

 Kings, Princes not even to touch such 

 medicines with their lips, because they 

 are poisonous, noxious, and most danger- 

 ous. I will not attempt to refute them, 

 for they speak at random without the 

 slightest knowledge of their subject. I 

 will only say this, that I offer to give to 

 one who has swallowed the most deadly 

 of all poisons so powerful an antidote, 

 that, if he be left altogether to my treat- 

 ment, the venom will at once be totally 

 expelled from his system. 



As to the rest, I do not care in the 

 least whether you, Sir Doctor, who know 

 nothing at all about this matter, and 

 have never given the least thought to it, 

 condemn my medicine, or not ; it is 

 enough for me that I can prove its 

 efficacy, that I have prepared this Medi- 



