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the Cort. Peru v. optimum^ with the Cort. Peru v. 

 common^ and fo make Cort. VtrxxY.fecond^ * and 

 in this way gain the money myfelf which, 

 before, I foolifhly paid to the druggifts in Eng- 

 land." 



This man who, independent of a total want 

 of profeffional knowledge, avowedly, and from 

 V the moft fordid motives, never adminiftered 

 to his patients .a fmgle grain of that bark, 

 which (even in proper cafes for its exhibition) 

 was moft likely to prove beneficial, — this man 

 is a bufy practitioner in Bridge- Town, and Is 

 efteemed the great Hippocrates, the family 

 do&or^ and the confidential, and prime guar- 

 dian of health to many of the inhabitants of 

 Barbadoes ! 



In all climates, a found judgment, and an 

 acutenefs of dilbrimination, together with a 

 corredt knowledge of the human frame, are 

 necefl^ary to the fuccefsful treatment of dif- 

 eales : but in the Weft Indies, where the attack 



* It were much to be wiQied, that the vendors of drugs 

 had not difcovcred a ftill worfe means of adulterating this 

 moft valuable mtdicine, 



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