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LETTER XXIX. 



Author claims the freedom of noting* upo^n all fubje&s^ 

 Pol'iie and learned praElit 'wners in medicine at Barbadoes, 

 The contrary. Anecdote of a Barbadoes medicajler* Re-* 

 marks upon the fatal confequences of allowing every pretender 

 to range at large in the medical profejjion. Empirics and 

 patents* New Tavern at Bridge-Town, Mode offepara» 

 ting the feeds from cotton, Barbadoes method of carrying 

 children, Suggeflidn whether it may not be preferable to the 

 Engliflj method. A fpecimen of the bitter hardfhips of 

 flavery^ 



Barbadoes, March, 



It being ftipulated that all fubjedis of re- 

 mark are to find place in my Notesy you wili 

 not reproach me with the diffentient term 

 Parifli biifinefs," if an oecafional fentefice 

 ftiould chance to fleal in upon the topic of 

 medicine. Indeed you have defired it fhould 

 be fo, and this, at once, prevents the neceflity 

 of apology. 



You will have eolIe£ted, from what I have 

 faid before, that there are Gentlemen in the 



