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 great part of Mankind, who might have been led to tamper, muſt have been deſtroyed. For nothing leſs could be the conſequence of uſing drugs without a knowledge of their qualities, or the neceſſary proportions in compounding them.

This ſtrange and ſuſpicious paragraph begins by obliquely bringing water (heretofore uſed for the purpoſe he is about to deſcribe a ſubſtitute) into diſrepute; and then in order to invelope as much as poſſible the true Mot D’Enigme, which your Lordſhip heard from the teſtimony of Mr. Simpſon was Mutton Suet, he begins by adducing Oils, Wax, Reſinous Bodies (then what alone he ſhould have ſaid, the Fat of Animals) and laſtly, what is more particularly blameable, Quickſilver, and other metals in their fluid ſtate.

I will trouble your Lordſhip with my full opinion on this laſt, and deſtructive propoſition.

To uſe Oils in general is impoſſible, as all Volatile Oils would be diſſipated, and many of them, under ſome circumſtances, explode with force ſufficient to burſt an Engine, and deſtroy all