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EPIGRAM CCXXI.

[When quacks, as quacks may by good luck, to be sure]

AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM.

When quacks, as quacks may by good luck, to be sure,
Blunder out at hap-hazard a desperate cure,
In the prints of the day, with due pomp and parade,
Case, patient, and doctor, are amply display'd:—
All this is quite just—and no mortal can blame it;
If they save a man's life, they've a right to proclaim it:

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But there's reason to think they might save more lives still,
Did they publish a list of the numbers they kill!