Burn's Justice abridged. In physic, Buchan's Family Physician, Culpepper's Midwifery, and Turner's Surgery. The agreeable manner in which this last au|thor relates his own wonderful cures, the lives of his patients, and his remarkable dexterity, in extracting a pound of can|dles, from the arm of a wounded soldier; the spirited horse, the neat little saddle bags, and tipped bridle, of our own doctor, determined me in favour of physic. My father did not oppose my choice. He only dryly observed, that he did not know what pretensions our family had to prac|tise physic, as he could not learn that we had ever been remarkable for killing any but Indians.0
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