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Medicine of this Confequence fhould be fo liable to 
Adulterations, and the Criteria of its Genuinenefs 
fo ill fettled. It is therefore to be wiih’d, that fome 
Gentleman, who has Skill and Leifure enough, would 
oblige the World with an accurate Analyfis of it, and 
fettle the Chara&eriftics of that which is genuine ; 
difcovering, at the fame time, the Frauds and Arti- 
fices, by which it is adulterated and counterfeited, and 
a certain Method of dete&ing them : For, where the 
Musk is not genuine, all that is hitherto faid will 
prove but of little Service, either to the Patient or 
Phyfician. 
TVorceJhr, Off. 21 , 
I 744« 
J. Wall, 
II. 
A Letter from Alex. Reid, Efq\ to Dr. Wil- 
mqt, concerning the EffeSis of the Tonqui- 
nefe Medicine . 
Dear Sir , London , Nov. 5. 1745* 
A S your Zeal and Abilities for promoting the Good 
of Mankind are my principal Inducements, they 
muft be my only Apology, for troubling you with 
the following Account of what I know concerning 
the internal Ufe of Musk in large Quantities. 
About 15 Years ago, I learn’d in China , that the 
Tonquinefe had an infallible Cure for the Bite of a 
mad Dog 5 and, being very defirous of poffefling fo 
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