have mentioned, I likewise looked into the original observation writers, and miscellaneous books relating to physic. They afford excellent knowledge, where the authors are faithful and judicious. Such are the observationes medicae of Nicolaus Tulpius (a curious book; and the dedication of it to his son Peter, a student in physic, good advice; 2d edition, 1652, is the best: it is a fourth part larger than the 1st edition, that came out in 1641.) The observationes et curationes medicinales of Petrus Forestus, Lib. 22. — The observationes medicae of Joannes Theodorus Schenkius. — And the various Journals, and Transactions of learned Societies; which are repositories in which the physician finds much rare and valuable knowledge. And as a physician ought to have a little acquaintance with the modern practice of surgery, I concluded with Heister's, Turner's, and. Sharp's Surgery.
By this method of studying physic in the middle of a wood, and employing my time and pains in reading the antients, and considering

their plain and natural account of diseases, I became a Doctor, as well as if I had been a regular collegiate in the world. — But it is time to think of my various story, and I shall detain my Reader no longer from it, than while he reads the following translation of the charming mythological picture of Cebes; which is placed here, as the golden 10th Satire of Juvenal is put after the XIIIth Section of this work, by way of entertainment between the acts.
A Translation of the Table of Cebes.
The thing is a Dialogue between an Old Man and a Traveller.
WHILE we were walking in the temple of Saturn, (in the city of Thebes,) and viewing the votive honours of the God, the various offerings which had been presented to that deity, we observed at the entrance of the Fane,

a picture tablet that engaged our attention, as it was a thing intirely new, both with regard to the painting and the design. For some time, we stood considering the device and fable, but still found ourselves unable to guess the meaning. The piece did not seem to be either a city or a camp; but was a kind of a walled court, that had within it two other inclosures, and one of them was larger than the other. The first court opened at a gate, before which a vast crowd of people appeared, impatient to enter; and within a group of female figures was represented. Stationed at the porch without, was seen a venerable

form, who looked like some great teacher