TO THE COLLEGE OF WIGS.
TO THE PHYSICIAN.
TO THE SURGEON.
TO THE ACCOUCHER,
TO THE APOTHECARY.
TO THE CHYMISTS AND DRUGGISTS.
BOOKS lately published by G. KEARSLEY,
IN A SERIES OF INSTRUCTIONS TO
YOUNG PHYSICIANS, SURGEONS, ACCOUCHERS, APOTHECARIES,DRUGGISTS, AND PRACTITIONERS OF EVERYDENOMINATION, IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.
INTERSPERSED WITH A VARIETY OF
RISIBLE ANECDOTES AFFECTING THE FACULTY.
INSCRIBED
TO THE COLLEGE OF WIGS,
BY
GREGORY GLYSTER,
AN OLD PRACTITIONER.
“TWENTY MORE! KILL THEM TOO.”——BOBADIL.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR G. KEARSLEY, NO. 46, FLEET-STREET.
MDCCLXXXIX.
[PRICE THREE SHILLINGS AND SIX-PENCE.]
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The solemnity of your somniferous aspects, no lessthan the professional gravity of your external ornaments,lay claim to a bow of obedient recollectionin passing through W—— k-lane to public inspection.As one of the most popular descendants from your greatprogenitor, permit me to acknowledge, I revere thevast extent of your medical abilities; that I feel mostforcibly the enormous weight of your accumulated learning,and tremble at the very idea of your experimentalabilities.
Condescend, dread Sirs, to sanction this analizationof Æsculapian imposition and medical mystery, with suchproof of approbation, as the dignity of a diploma, andiithe muscular rigidity of physical countenance will permityou to bestow; nor let it be the less entitled toyour favor, that a long list of valetudinarians (to whomyou are daily pensioners) become partakers of thebanquet of mirth; or the small fry of pharmacopolists(your humble dependents) for once permitted to take aseat at the same table with yourselves.
Anxiously solicitous to obtain belief, that
you may in justice conclude me,
Sage Sirs!
Your very candid,
And obedient representative,
GREGORY GLYSTER.
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