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they commence Z)oi??<9rj-, feeling themfelves fully 

 qualified, without profeflional reading, without 

 vifiting the fchools of Europe, without expe- 

 rience, and I might fay, without thought, or 

 judgment, to undertake the cure of all the 

 direful maladies which afflid the human frame ; 

 —in fliort, without one neceffary qualification 

 do thefe Creole pretenders feel themfelves com- 

 petent to exercife all the various branches of 

 the healing art. 



Cleghorn, Mafter, and myfelf called, late-;- 

 ly, at the fhop of one of the praditioners of 

 this clafs, to purchafe fome Peruvian bark, 

 when we found our brother doBor difpofed to 

 be facetious and communicative ; and prone 

 to talk with equal confidence and loquacity* 

 His bark, he afTured us, was " of the beft," for 

 he had plenty of the Cort. Peruv. optimum^ 

 and had " advertifed it for f ale although he 

 " never ufed it for hi2> patients ;^ — adding to 

 this very liberal and laudable avowal " I have 

 alfo the' Cort. Peruv. common, hut I never 

 write now for the Cort. Vtxuv, fecond : for-r 

 merly I did, and the druggifts cheated me, 

 but I have found them out, and now make the 

 Cort, Yti\xs[,fecond myfelf. I mix a little of 



