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MR. RANLET,
IN reading your paper of the loth inst.
I observed a piece from Mr. IVefcot,
feting forth a very extraordinary cure
from the superior &ill of Dodor Pope —
Ido not pretend to fay that Dr. Pope
got him to blow the trumpet from New-
Hampshire to Georgia—But that Mr.
Wefcot perhaps felt his obligations of
acknowledgment to the Doctor in the
manner and form in which he has made
it kown—That Mr. Wefcot may be un
deceived with refped to Dr. Pope's hold
ing any secret as a fpecific for the cure
of cancers —above many other Gentle
men, I would inform him that I can
witness to the faccefs of many of the fa
culty, who cures cancerous disorders so
denominated, with as much facility, and
to as good an effea asthe noted Dr Pope
—I have been in the method of curing
cancers,fo called, in various parts of the
body for number of years —the general
mode of operating for fchirrus cancer
ftrumas call them by what name we will
—is by Cauftic —as such I pretend
to hold no fecret —I venture to fay
Dr. Pope has none but what is
easily attainable by any gentleman of the
faculty, that has common ingenuity in
his profeffion —I would not give one half
pence to know whither it is from
the mineral or vegetable kingdom
—I affirm from long experience, and
the tryal of different forts of caulticks—
and caufficks differing in their degree of
ceufticity —that the vegetable cauftick
Alkaly is equal to any, in cancerous or
foul ulcerous cases.
Newhampfhire
The recovery of a drowned person, appar
lentlylently dead, flrikingly delineated by the
celebrated Doctor FRANKLIN. From
a Sermon preached by that gentleman to
the Society infituted for the recovery
of drowned persons in London.
SUPPOSE yourselves (fays the Dc^or)
but for a few moments, in your
evening walk of rural retirements, on
the borders of a delightful stream ;
imagine your contemplations interrupt
ed by a strange and uncommon appear
ance. At a little distance from you,
you behold a busy bustling crowd of in
deftrious labourers 'encircling the body
of their helpless companion, whom they
have taken, at the hazard of their own
lives, out of the neighbouring river, and
digged to the shore without life or mo
tion. Scarce an hour has parted since
the object of their grief and attention
had left his little circle cf Domeflick
happiness, in all the glow of youth,
health and vigour.—And now behold his
body fwoln, eyes closed and funk,
his face pale and livid, his limbs torpid
and motionless ; without the least
signs of life, they convey him in ho;e
]efs despondency to his own home.
The whole affii&ed family, summon
ed by the dreadful news, are gathered
together. Fear, despondency; horrour,
and astonishment, are spread over every
countenance. On one fide, behold
the aged mother lamenting her loft child,
the prop and support of her declining
years ; on the other, Hands mute and
insensible the afflidled wife, afraid to
look up to the horrid fpedacle before
her; whilst the innocent little ones,
happv only in not knowing how much
they have loft, lock with amazement at
the motionless hands which so lately
were stretched out to embrace them, and
wonder at the silence of him who always
so kindly greeted them on his return.
Those who would most gladly take upon
them the talk of restoring him, are most
Neiv-Hampfare, JJie 15th, 1791/
FRIDAY, June 24, 1791.]
For the Neavbampfoire Gazetteer.
EXETE R, (New-Hamp/hire) Printed and Published by HENRY RANLET, at Nine Shillings per annum.
unable to perform it ; their faculties are
all absorbed in grief, their limbs petrifi
ed with despair, and all the precious
moments which Should have been em
ployed in the means of his recovery,
are loft in fruitlefs tears and la
mentation.—They bang over him in
silent angaifh, take their lalt farewell in
the agonies of despair, and contign him
to the grave.
And now, my brethren, obfeverve the
change. It chances that one of the lons
of humanity (which is but another name
for this institution) is passing by: As
soon as he hears of the event, he flics,
like the good Samaritan to the chambers
of lorrow ; he flops the retreating mul
titulde, the idle sons of curiosity, who
had assembled but to gaze at desert him,
calls on the most vigorous and ac
ive a m ongst them to aliift him, ap
plies with zeal and alicity those plain
and simple means, which reason dictates
as mod proper to reanimate, if possible,
the lifelefs mass, and purfees them with
ceaseless toil and ugwearied alliduity.
Death yet unwilling to quit his hold, or
to relinquish his devoted prey; draggles
long and powerfully to detain it ; seems
to (mile as it were, at the ineffectual
labour; until at length fubdged by for
titude and perseverance, he gives up the
contest. Nature no longer able to relift
lech repeated solicitations, relumes her
suspended powers, and exerts her enli
vening influence A ray of hope breaks
in upon the gloom, and lights up every
ocuntenance.—Behold at last, again .he
breathes, he lives. What follows is not
within the power of language to de-
Icribe ; imagination alone can suggest to
you the delightful scene of wonder and
aflonilhm^nt, of mutual joy, transport,
and felicity.
All parents fall employ and bring up their
children in Jerne honest and lawful call
ing, labour or employment, profitable to
tbemflves and the State,
Statutes of Connecticut^
LAZINESS, faith Solomon, Mill
clot be a mah in rags, this experience
proves to be true ; but there are other
things belide laziness that will clothe a
man in rags: Let a man be ever so will
ing to work, yet if he has no work to
do, he will be clothed in rags : —lf he has
ever so much work, and knows not how
to do it,he will still be clothed in ra n s: —
If he understands his work well, and has
no tools to work with, he will kill wear
rags: —lf he has work enough, tools
Efficient and understands his business
web, yet if his constitution is weak and
infirm, and his labour is hard, he will
have no clothing but rags.
No parent would with to fee his son
clothed in rags. Then let him bring him
up to some calling that he can follow to
advantage—some employment that will
" be profitable to himfelf and the Hate."
Parents should judge of the constitutions,
and consult the inclinations of their
children before they determine their fate
in life; they should likewise confider
their own abilities to set them out in the
world. What propriety can their be in
a man's bringing up his son a farmer,
when he knows that he (ball never be
able to give him an inch of land? What
advantage can it be to a feeble confiitu
tioned child to breed him a blacksmith ?
Or what benefit can it be to a young
man to force him to college, when he
The HUMORIST—No. 111.
From the Farmer's 'Journal.
MISCELLANIES.
THE
has no moreinclination for handling a
book, than a backlog ?
If parents would consult the good of
their children they would firft choose a
trade for them, belt iuited to their ge
nius and abilities, and then make them
serve seven years to get that trade per
fect, seven years is not too long a time to
serve for a trade ; it is true some trades
may be learnt in less time, but no one
ever learnt a trade too well. A trade half
learnt is worse than none; a good work
man will almost always find employ,
while a bungler will starve for want of
business. A person had better be a
servant to a good master seven years
than be a Have to poverty all his life
time.
If a man has a great quantity of land,
or is able to buy farms and flock them
well for his sons, and finds them pieafed
with a farmer's life, he should by all
means make them farmers, it is the belt
and most independent way of life, when
a man is before band; but if a man is
forced to run into debt to begin farming
business, he can hardly get before hand
in one age. And a farmer that drives
on a stroke of business, and owes more
than he is worth, is in a worse condition
than the person who earns his scanty
allowance of bread by day-labour—his
mind, if not his body, shall be all his
life long clothed in fretting rags.
C CONSIDERING the knowledge of
4 the properties and virtues of Medi
cine of such vast importance and necessi
ty, in order to administer it with pro
priety and fafety, I beg leave so offer my
sentiments (which are the result of a va
riety of experiments and observations)
to the Puolick in general, on the medi
cinal qualities and effefts of the celebra
ted Spring in NEW-LABENON.
From a variety of experiments that I
have made (which are too numerous to
insert here) it appears that the water is
possessed of several valuable properties ;
two of ,he most important that I have
difeovered are an alkalefcent quatity,and
a degree of fixed air. But the water,
with all its properties is not an infal
liable fpecific for every defeafe, though
almost every kind of Ivalids attend
it.
There are a great number who attend
the POOL, that might receive benfit,
which do not, on account of the misap
plication of the waters —There are others
who require some Medical assistance with
the wafer ; and there are others again
who obtain a cure from the cemmon
method of using the Water; without any
other assistance.
Bat it is certain, the difference of dis
eases, age, conftitution,&c. must require
a different use of the water (where it
is indicated)as well as any other Medi
cine.
Similar objection may be offered t<l
the general use of aimoft every medi-
For example=-fuppofe a Medicine Is
held up to view which is much celebra
ted for restoring health, and every person
has an equal right to partake, and use it
according to their own judgment.—Sup
pose for instance Peruvian Bark ; which
is a very powerful ionic and antifceptic,
and well adapted to many cases; but
even in cases where it is strongly indi
cated, some preparation is often neces
sary for the fafety and eligibility of the
cure.
But this valuable medicine in many
cases (if taken) would prove as fatal as
arsenic, or any other virulent poison ; —
particularly in the firft stage of inflama
tory fevers.
FROM THE WESTERN STAR.
To the FUBL ICK.
Gazetteer.
[Numb. 47 of Volume ; —
cine ; and also to the general use of the
water.
It appears from a parity of reasoning,
that great improvement may be made in
applping the water; and with other ne
cessary assistance it will undoubtedly be
of very great publick utility.
For example—last summer a gentler
man of the faculty visited the POOL to
regain his health, (being in a very in
firm state) but the common use of the
water alone, proved detrimental co him
—whereupon be made use of feme suita
ble medicine, (which had proved in
effectual alone) together with the water
which proved, (as I have since heard)
a radical cure for his disorder
Different men have different ways of
climbing into rank and office. Some
bold fellows take a run and mount at two
or three flrides. Others of left vigour
use more art —they creep slyly along
upon their bellies, catching, hold of the
cliffs and twigs to pull themselves up—
fometimes they meet a high rock and
are obliged to crawl round it—at other
times they catch hold of a prominent
cliff or a little twig, which gives way
and back they tumble, scratching their
clothes and sometimes their skin. How
ever it is, very few will lift their neigh
bours—unlefs to get a lift themselves.
Yet sometimes one of these crawleis
will lend a hand to their neighbouring
crawlefrs—affeft to pull hard to raise
them all a little—then getting upon
their shoulders, give a leap to an emi
nence and leave them all in the lurch,
or kick them over. The moment one
begins to tumble, every one who is near
him hits him a kick.
THIS, it is said, is very natu al;
that is, it is very common. There
are two reasons for this—First, it is much
easier to kick a man down bill, than to
push him up hill —Socond, men love to
fee every body at the bottom of the hill
but themselves.
But no people get so many kicks as
poor debtors in failing circumstances.
While a man is doing very well, that is,
while his credit is good, every one helps
him—the moment he is pressed for mo
ney,however honest and able he may be,
he gets kicks from all quarters. His
friends and his reputation desert him
with the loss of his purse, and he soon
tumbles to the bottom of the hi!L
A variety of similar cases might be
mentioned; but a publication of this
kind will not admit of it.
I expert to publilh more largely, after
the ensuing season.
By a request of a number of my friends
in concurrence with my own inclination
—I have undertaken to keep a Regiiler
of every disease symptom, age and sex
of the patient; with the method of ap
plying the water; which is an un
dertaking that has long been requir
ed.
Any gentleman that wishes for try ad
vice, may find me living within a few
reds of the Spring, where 1 expert to
be able to fatisfy any Gentleman's curi
osity with regard to the quality of the
water, &c. &c.
From the Connecticut Courant
When a man is going down bill, every on
The PROMPTER—No. 19.
From the Publick's,
Most devoted,
Huble servant,
STEPHEN HALL,
gives him a kich.