iv The PREFACE. What relates to fuch precautionary Means, for our Security } agaivjl the In feci ion now abroad^ as concerns the Magtftrate, I have pre- fumed to fay hut very little to becaufe that has been under the direction of much abler 'Judges ; yet what I have ventured to fuggefi concerning 4 Regulation in the. Bills of Mor- tality ', I cannot forbear being fo partial to^ as to wiflj it may ha duly confidered, by Per fens of mere Compafs and Penetration in fuch mat- ters ; and it has been much my concern not to have had an opportunity of Communicating it in a more . private manner to Perfons, whofe Authority might have given it greater weight hecaudj b fides the advantages immediately pro- posed to be anfvered from it under our prefent apprehcnfionS) I cannot but conceive it to be applicable to a great many other ufeful Ends^ as every curious and inauifaive Perfon ma) eafily apprehends Becaufe the Antid.otes and Me da cine s com- mit m 'cat v ed by Dr. Hodges, are for the mofl; part xbfolete y I have ventured to add fome Formulae more fait Me to the modem Practice) and
