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all perspiration checked, by having been put 

 into a cold damp stable, and not well 

 rubbed down, and well clothed, ever 

 having been used to a warm stable and 

 good attendance ; or from standing in a 

 great perspiration, hung to some ale-house 

 by a master, by far more brute than the 

 animal,) send for a veterinary surgeon. 

 Yet, in complicated complaints, more 

 commonly known by the name of chroni- 

 cal diseases, I am of opinion, that nature 

 acts infinitely beneficent, kind, and great, 

 in our favour. That the doctor may assist 

 nature, I allow ; but his skill cannot take 

 the lead of her : and I am persuaded that, 

 provided your apothecary and surgeon be 

 a man of good sense, and of considerable 

 practice in his profession, when he finds 

 that all the medicines he has given you 

 have been of no avail, and desires that you 

 will call in a physician, it is only for this 

 fcTotheca?' ^^^^son, — that, provided three people die in 

 the year, attended by an apothecary only, 

 it makes a greater noise in the parish than 

 when three thousand die under the care of 

 physicians ; for scarcely does any one die 



