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you was not wanting to your father's fame in fending<br />
back the book, enlarged with many additions, together<br />
with an elegant epiftle, yet Paullinus, my bookfeller,<br />
with a view of making an honeft gain, has entreated me<br />
to add fome few obfervations, which he fancies I have<br />
always ready by me on all occafions. That I might<br />
not baulk his hopes, nor fail in the duty I owe to the<br />
Meibomius's and the Caffius's, and to profit the pub-<br />
lic too-<br />
Communis ifia pluribus caufa ell Deis,<br />
That common care of ev'ry heav'nly power—<br />
I have, among my other ftudies, which my friends<br />
know I am employed in, colleeted a few twigs to add<br />
to your bundle of rods, and dedicate them to yours<br />
and your father's honour. Few before you have taken<br />
notice of the ufe of rods in phyfia ; it is certain very<br />
few care for them, lime gentle and eafy methods pleafe<br />
our patients belt, and they are ftartled at feverer<br />
medicines, tho' the condition of mortality is fuch, that<br />
even when we dere to ufe them moft gently, we very<br />
often neither can nor dare. Hippocrates's chains are<br />
now and then to be called in, and a feverer difcipline<br />
is to be ufed to obftinate diftempers.<br />
Strokes
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