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ADVERTISEMENT.

He presumes to add, that he conceives nature hasmade him a physician; and that to the best of hisrecollection, he has always remembered every thingthat he has ever met with in a medical way, thathe has counted valuable. In his youth he had astrong desire to become a student of physic, that hemight act with propriety therein as a regular prac-titioner, but he was somehow providentially pre-vented ; and it now appears to him, that his oppor-tunities have been just such as to allow him to roamin search of every thing in the science of diseases,and their cure, and at length to satisfy himself,that generally speaking, his knowledge is accurate,and the prescriptions he has been able to make willbe found valuable.

As diseases radically are but few, and may be allcured by but a few medicines, he conceives he hasprescribed enough here for general use, and thatthey are the best that he has gained knowledge of.