Wesley Corpus

done, and continue to do daily ? From pineingaway in fickness and pain , either through the ignorance or knavery of phyficians ? Yea, and many times throwing away their lives, after their health, and time, and fubftance ? Is it enquired, but are there not books enough already, on every part of the art of medicine ? Yes, too many, ten times over, confidering how little to the purpose the far greater part ofthem speak. But befide this , they are too dear for poor men to buy, and too hard for plain men to understand. Do you fay, but there are enough of these collections of receipts . Where? I have not feen one yet , either in our own or any other tongue , which contains only fafe and cheap and easy mea. ines . In all that have yet fallen into my hand, I find many dear and many farfetch'd medicines : Befides many of fo dangerous a kind, as a prudent man would never meddle with. And against the greater part of thofe medicines there is a farther objection : They confift oftwo many ingredients. The common method compounding and decompounding medi . cines, can never be reconciled to common fenfe. Experience fhews, that one thing of will