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Indies. I dare not hazard an opinion upon 

 this fubjeft. What fay you politicians of 

 London refpeding it ? , ' 



But I have fomething to tell you more 

 amufing than ftorms, and fleets, and troubled 

 feas. You will remember our occafional 

 converfations refpedlng the numberlefs perils 

 and dangers that derive, to the public, from 

 the licenfe afforded, in this country, to every 

 idle and impudent boafler of empirical re- 

 medies for the cure of difeafe ; and, without 

 any violent furprize, you will place the fol- 

 lowing fa(3: among the hoft of abfurdities 

 which daily meet your eye and your ear. 



A phyfician, whom I had the pleafure of 

 converfmg with yefterday evening, was, fome 

 time ago, called to vifit a patient who was, 

 wretchedly, afflidted with hypochondriafis. 

 She had long been under the care of the foi- 



difant and celebrated DoBor^ and had 



fwallowed of his all-healing, all-refl:oring, all- 

 ftrengthening, and never-failing cordial as 

 much as had coft her two-and-twenty guineas. 

 Still flxe was more and more low, dyfpeptic, 



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