esteem and are delighted with the Art we speak of, still ignorant, that scarce any Chymical Preparations (as its true Sons, if there be any such, have often complained to my self) are to be sold at this time, which are not fictitious, and adulterated upon the base account of Gain.
Lastly, some may object, that Blood-letting can never be convenient for that tender Age, much less to become ne∣cessary upon some occasions.
I reply, that Blooding, even of the Youngest Infants, was appointed of old by the command of the Supream God, the Greatest Physitian, in the Decree of the Circumcision; that great Hemorrhagies did often attend it, and which were very difficultly stopped, unless by exquisite Remedies prepar∣ed for that end; and yet the Jewish Writers, which is very observable, did boldly aver, That not one Infant of a thousand was a-missing or died untimely, only because that Blood was let this way.
May the greatest and best God, from whom, as from an unexhaustible Foun∣tain,