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PREFACE. ''they come. I hope the world will not receive this work with les candor, becaue I don't give them a recipe of the remedy here recommended, which I do not know my elf; and which in all right reaon ought to be the property of the Inventor.''

''I aw no occaion to alter any thing in the letter which I publihed lat year. Becaue there were but very few copies of it printed; as it is a neceary part of this dicourse, I reprinted it, that they may be bound together. And if I hould hereafter trouble the world upon this argument again, from longer experience, I hope it will not be without emolument. My ole purpoe in the affair is to benefit mankind, if I am able. I have before now refus'd the honers and profits of the profeion of phyick, and don't eek them at this time. And reputation'' Rh