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will suit all places, however it may suit 

 the professor's convenience to establish 

 such a doctrine*. 



I have perhaps expressed myself more 

 strongly, and more at length than I other- 

 wise should have done, on the subject of 

 so paltry an invention as that of the belt, 

 from the extreme disgust I felt at seeing 

 its effect in a place, of which the general 



# There is in this respect no small degree of resem- 

 blance between the art of gardening, and that c$ medicine, 

 in which, after the general principles have been acquired, 

 the judgment lies in the application ; and every case (as 

 an eminent physician observed to me) must be considered 

 as a special case. 



This holds precisely in improving, and in both arts the 

 quacks are alike; they have no principles, but only a few 

 nostrums, which they apply indiscriminately to all situations, 

 and all constitutions;. Clumps and Belts, pills and drops, 

 are distributed with equal skill ; the one plants the right, 

 and clears the left, ja 3 the other bleeds the east, and purges 

 the west ward: T!l& best improver or physician, is he who 

 leaves most to nature: ; who watches and takes advantage of 

 those indications wliiich she points out when left to exert 

 her own powers, butt which, when once destroyed or sup- 

 pressed by an empyric of either kind, present themselves 

 no more. 



