at once fhock and divert you. Even the 

 revengeful and ftudied cruelty of favages, 

 horrid as it is, yet ftill is lefs odious and dif- 

 gufting than the cold, fettled, regular fyftem 

 of oppreifion and torture of the inquifition. 



The method of applying general rules, 

 (as you have remarked) can only be learnt 

 by practice ; but I fhould much doubt whe- 

 ther there be any plan, or any medicine 

 " proper almoft in every cafe/' 1 have read 

 indeed of a panacea, but I believe it to be 

 as rare as a plan of improvement of the fame 

 accommodating nature: certainly the cha- 

 racter will neither fuit Mr. Brown's plan, 

 nor James's powder; and it would, in my 

 idea, be no fmall impeachment to a phyfician, 

 could it be foretold, before he had feen his 

 patient, that he would prefcribe that excel- 

 lent medicine, whatever the diforder, or the 

 fort of fever might be ; for that is the true 

 parallel with Mr. Brown's anticipated plan, 



which 



