Excerpt from A Proposal for Redressing the Grievances of the Nation, Under the Following Heads, Viz In many obf'tinate and chronical Cafes of the Body Natural, Nothing but defperate Remedies will effect a Cure; and by a Pa rity of Reafon, our prefent, generally al-l low'd untoward National Situation feems to authorife a no-lefs extraordinary Recipe'to the Body Politick. There is a received Opi nion too among the Faculty, which is no lefs pertinent to the Occafion, namely, That He is the befi Phyfician, that hits heft the Caufe Of a Diftemper, and can foonef't after wards bring it to a Crifis, whether it be for the Refioration, or Difio1ution of the Patient, for certainly to know one's Fate is abun dantly more eligible than to languifh for Years under a doubtful and painful Expec'ta tion of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.