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 without any other Surgeon but Time, any other Regimen but their uual way of Living, and whoe Cures were not the les perfect for their not having been tortured with Inciions, poioned with Drugs, or worn out by Diet and Abtinence. In a word, however ueful Medicine well adminitered may be to us who live in a State of Society, it is till pat Doubt, that if, on the one hand, the ick Savage, detitute of Help, has nothing to hope from Nature, on the other, he has nothing to fear but from his Dieae; a Circumtance, which often renders his Situation preferable to ours.

Let us therefore beware of confounding avage Man with the Men, whom we daily ee and convere with. Nature behaves towards all Animals left to her Care with a Predilection, that eems to prove how jealous he is of that Prerogative. The