SIR,
I Cannot conceive the reason of so much public conversation concerning the pamphlet entitled “Observations Preparatory to Dr Mayersbach’s Prescriptions.” It contains (in my opinion) too much outward wit for a Judicious Physician, and too much scurrility for a Modest Quaker. A few weeks since, I read an “Essay on the Inspection of the Urine,” a pamphlet much more to be commended than that of “Observations, &c.” It contained the medical sentiments of a thoughtful physician, and one who seemed to have an inward benevolence towards the lives of his fellow creatures. I commend the author of “Observations, &c.” for taking into consideration such a pest to society, so established among the island of English credulity. Yet far better had it been, if he had wrote more seriously on the subject and not given the public his farcical observations, when it required a dissertation wrote with gravity, medical skill, and from an extensive experience, and likewise wrote without a display of mottos, and a less share of impudentia.
The above, Sir, are the thoughts of
Your old correspondent
2d Oct. J A L A P.
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