INTRODUCTION. VII 



Secondly, The best methods of cure. 



Thirdly, A particular method of prepar- 

 ing and compounding the medicines, the 

 extent of the several doses, and the pro^ 

 per management subsequent to adminis-* 

 tering them, together with the proper 

 times necessary for giving the physic. . 



Further, the work has been entirely re- 

 written, upwards of ot^e hundred new re- 

 cipes, (never before published) are now 

 added ; and a considerably larger number 

 of compound medicines is introduced than 

 appeared in any former edition. To the 

 whole is added an Appendix, containing 

 the preparation of the different com- 

 pound medicines, and a choice collection 

 of recipes. All superfluous matter is care- 

 fully omitted ; and the author has sedu- 

 lously studied (he hopes with success) to 

 lay down plain and familiar rules, as briefly 



