Th T R E FJC E, 



Encomiums on their Virtues and Excellencies, which 

 upon the {lri(fteft Examination, has proceeded more 

 from a fond Opinion he has had of them, than Irom 

 any real Virtues in them : B.fides, that many of 

 them are fo coftly, that in the Procefs of fome re- 

 gular Cures, they muft exceed the Price of any or- 

 dinary Horfe. 



Neither has he been able to obviate the Objeflions 

 which we find have been made to himfelf, for infert- 

 ing fuch vaft Numbers of Remedies j for what he al- 

 ledges concerning the Variety of Conftitutions, is ve- 

 ry little to the Purpofe, fuch a Medicine of the fame 

 Intention need only be made flronger or weaker in 

 the principal Ingredients j or if any Alteration be 

 neccilary, that ought to depend upon a Change or 

 Complication of Symptoms ; all which fhould be 

 clearly explained by thofe who deliver Inftitutions of 

 Cure. And as for his Chymical Procefles, we look 

 upon many of theni as unnecefiary Implements,which 

 only help to fill up his Book, and fhew more of Pomp 

 and Ollentation than any real \](t -, efpecially fince 

 there are but few of them which vary much from 

 the common receiv'd Forms ; and if it was other- 

 wife, they could not eafily be comply'd with by any 

 who are unacquainted with the Chymifi's Art, or 

 unprovided with the Inflruments that are proper to 

 mr'ke them. 



But \i Solle^{f(U^ who is defervedly reputed the bed 

 Author, was even faulty in ihefe Rcfpeds, notwith- 

 flanding all the Pains he had taken ; What can we 

 hope from thofe of lefs Learning and Ability, who 

 have only delivered things at fecond-hand ? Of thefe, 

 all Nations have produced fufficient Store, whofe 

 Precepts have been as much, if not more, followed 

 t'lan original Authors ; but none have been fo much 

 ?ibus'd that way as ourfelves -, for altho' we have had 

 the Reputation of improving many Arts beyond what 

 others have done; and tho' thai ofllorfjmanOiip was 



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