This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1798 edition. Excerpt: ... this moment fixed his attention upon a srnoak ing bason of fresh milk-porridge. Chapter III. Fortune begins to /mile upon our Hero. ALEXANDER Kinloch having visited his patient at the mill, called at the cottage, and made so favourable a report of his own wonderful performances, and the good night's ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1798 edition. Excerpt: ... this moment fixed his attention upon a srnoak ing bason of fresh milk-porridge. Chapter III. Fortune begins to /mile upon our Hero. ALEXANDER Kinloch having visited his patient at the mill, called at the cottage, and made so favourable a report of his own wonderful performances, and the good night's rest that he had procured for the wounded man, that little doubt was now entertained of his speedy'recovery. In fact, good fortune, and the critical interposition of Henry, had done more for him than all the art of Alexander, for the knife had simply glanced upon his ribs, and made a flesh wound, neither deep nor dangerous, and the blood which it drew, though formidable in appearance, was eventually no more than the young miller in his state of inflammation could- well spare, with profit to his habit and constitution. Kinloch delivered a message from Doctor Cawdle, desiring Henry to come to him, as he was was yet confined to his chamber; he also repeated his prognostication that Madam Jemima was in a hasty decline.---" Say you so," quoth Ezekiel, % why then she is in the properest place to meet with good advice: her spouse no doubt will exert all his skill in her behalf."-- "Her spouse indeed !" cried Kinloch, " poor creature! what can he do? I had prepar'd a medicine for her, compounded of specifics sovereign in her case, which is neither more nor less than an inordinate use of spirituous .liquors acting on an atrabilious habit."-- "Then what can save her but the muzzle?" resumed Daw.--" What can save her!" echoed the medical understrapper, " my remedy cou'd have sav'd her; a compound of all antidotes against hard drinking; a butt to sheath a spicula of intoxicating' potations. Know you not that there is a secret in nature, by the...
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