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medical profeffion in Barbadoes, who are, 

 equally, an honor to their profeffion, and an 

 ornament to fociety, and I may here repeat 

 that many fuch are to be met with in the 

 ifland. But it Is an unhappy truth that there 

 are others who are only pre-eminent in igno- 

 rance, for, alas ! praftitioners in medicine may 

 be found in this ifland, who, in learning and 

 manners, are not far removed above the flaves. 

 They are more illiterate than you can believe, 

 and the very negro doElors of the eftates too 

 juftly vie with them in medical knowledge. 

 It has happened to us to fee, among them, 

 men, who inftead of having the care of the 

 health and lives of their fellow-fubjeds, ought 

 not to be entrufted to compound a pill, or a 

 bolus. A tyro, advanced only a year or two 

 5n his apprenticefhip, in England, is far bet- 

 ter inflrufted in his profeffion, than fome of 

 the foi-difans and pradtifing proficients of 

 Barbadoes. Totally unprepared with a claf- 

 fical education, and, indeed, wholly devoid 

 of the very rudiments of literature, they 

 indolently wafte a few years, in the houfe, 

 or idly looking out at the fliop-window of 

 fome uneducated apothecary of the ifland, and 

 then in all the bold confidence of ignorance, 



