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BURLESQUE on the modern art of A healing, or on the multitude of nof A new art of writing letters, and a new kind of paper for that purpose 252, The utility of broad wheels confidered Substance of the act for naturalizing Jews Remarks on the two plays of The Bro- A defcription of the city of Worcester, The JOURNAL of a learned and political SPEECH of A. Nonius against the bill 257 The great fums formerly offered by the When the number and riches of the in- habitants contribute to the strength of a country, and when not 258,259 SPEECH of Jul. Drufus Publicola, in fa- The true import of the bill 261, 262, 263 The incapacities that aliens are subject to SPEECH of C. Julius against the bill ib. F. That a general naturalization of the Jews will be the confequence of it 265 That the Jews cannot incorporate with us That the bill is contrary to the prophecies Obfervations on plaister of Paris 266 Mr. Ames's method or receipt for taking off the infcriptions from brass plates in Account of the produce of the finking fund The adventures of Bertholde, with a de- His artifice for defeating the ladies pe- The Ode of Horace, and other Pieces we have received, shall be in our next. RECEIPTS for collecting the LAND TAX and WINDOW LIGHTS, are given Gratis THE LONDON MAGAZINE. JUNE, The following Paper is faid to be wrote by an The WORLD, N°. 24, June 14. A SHALL not at prefent enter into the great queftion between the ancients and the moderns; much lefs fhall I prefume to decide upon a point of that importance, which has B been the subject of debate among the learned from the days of Horace down to ours. To make my court to the learned, I will lament the gradual decay of human nature, for thefe laft 16 centuries; but at the fame time I will do juftice to my cotemporaries, will give them their due thare of praife, where they have either ftruck out new inventions, or im proved and brought old ones to perfection. Some of them I shall now mention. C The most zealous and partial advocate for the ancients will not, I believe, pretend to difpute the infinite fuperiority of the moderns in the art of healing. Hippocrates, Celfus and Galen had no fpecificks. They rather endeavour to relieve D than pretend to cure. As for the aftonishing cures of Æfculapius, I do not put them into the account; they are to be afcribed to his power, not to his skill; he was a god, and his divinity was his noftrum. But how prodigiously have my ingenious cotemporaries extended the bounds of medicine! What noftrums, what fpecificks, have they not discovered! Collectively confidered, they infure not only perfect health, but by a neceffary confequence, immortality; infomuch that I am aftonished when I ftill read in the bills of mortality the great numbers of June, 1753. E 1753. people who chufe to die under fuch and fuch diftempers, for every one of which there are infallible and fpecifick cures, not only advertised but attefted in all the news-papers. When the lower fort of Irish, in the moft uncivilized parts of Ireland, attend the funeral of a deceased friend or neighbour, before they give the last parting howl, they expoftulate with the dead body, and reproach him with having died, notwithstanding that he had an excellent wife, a milch cow, 7 fine children, and a competency of potatoes. Now tho' all thefe, particularly the excellent wife, are very good things in a state of perfect health, they cannot, as I apprehend, be looked upon as preventive either of ficknefs or of death; but with how much more reason may we expoftulate with, and cenfure thofe of our cotemporaries, who either from obftinacy or incredulity, die in this great metropolis, or indeed in this kingdom, when they may prevent or cure, at a trifling expence, not only all distempers, but even old age and death itfelf! The renovating elixir infallibly reflores priftine youth and vigour, be the patient ever fo old and decayed; and that without lofs of time or bufinefs; whereas the fame operation among the ancients was both tedions and painful, as it required a thorough boiling of the patient. The most inflammatory and intrepid fevers fly at the firft difcharge of Dr. James's powder; and a drop or pill of the celebrated Mr. Ward corrects all the malignity of Pandora's box. Ought not every man of great birth and eftate, who for many years has been afflicted with the pofteromania, or rage of having pofterity, a diftemper very common among perfons of that fort; ought he not, I fay, to be ashamed of having no iffue male to perpetuate his illuftrious name and title, when for fo fmall a fum as three-and-fix-pence, he and his lady might be fupplied with a fufficient quantity of 112 |