Wesley Corpus

will cure moft diforders, at leaft as well as twenty put together. Then why do you add the other nineteen ? Only to fwell the Apothecary's bill : Nay, poffibly, on purpole to prolong the diftemper, that the doctor and he may divide the spoil. But admitting there is fome quality in the medicine propofed, which has need to be corrected : Will not one thing correc it as well as twenty ? It is probable, much better. And ifnot, there is a fufficiency of other medicines, which need no fuch correction . How often, by this compounding medicines of oppofite qualities, is the virtue of both utterly deftroyed ? Nay, how often do those joined together deflroy life, which fingle might have preferved it ? This occafioned that caution of the great Boerhaave, against mixing things without evident neceffity , and without full proof of the effect they will produce when joined together, as well as of that they produced when afunder : Seeing (as he obferves) feveral things, which feparatly taken , are fafe and powerful medicines, when compounded, not only lose their former powers, but commence a strong and deadly poison . 15. As