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* * * * * ADVERTISEMENT. To prevent all Mistakes that may happen among Gentlemen of the other End of the Town, who come but once a Week to St. _James's_ Coffee-house, either by miscalling the Servants, or requiring such things from them as are not properly within their respective Provinces; this is to give Notice, that _Kidney,_ Keeper of the Book-Debts of the outlying Customers, and Observer of those who go off without paying, having resigned that Employment, is succeeded by _John Sowton_; to whose Place of Enterer of Messages and first Coffee-Grinder, _William Bird_ is promoted; and _Samuel Burdock_ comes as Shooe-Cleaner in the Room of the said _Bird_. R. * * * * * No. 25. Thursday, March 29, 1711. Addison. ... AEgrescitque medendo. Vir. The following Letter will explain it self, and needs no Apology. SIR, 'I am one of that sickly Tribe who are commonly known by the Name of _Valetudinarians_, and do confess to you, that I first contracted this ill Habit of Body, or rather of Mind, by the Study of Physick. I no sooner began to peruse Books of this Nature, but I found my Pulse was irregular, and scarce ever read the Account of any Disease that I did not fancy my self afflicted with. Dr. _Sydenham's_ learned Treatise of Fevers [1] threw me into a lingring Hectick, which hung upon me all the while I was reading that excellent Piece. I then applied my self to the Study of several Authors, who have written upon Phthisical Distempers, and by that means fell into a Consumption, till at length, growing very fat, I was in a manner shamed out of that Imagination. Not long after this I found in my self all the Symptoms of the Gout, except Pain, but was cured of it by a Treatise upon the Gravel, written by a very Ingenious Author, who (as it is usual for Physicians to convert one Distemper into another) eased me of the Gout by giving me the Stone. I at length studied my self into a Complication of Distempers; but accidentally taking into my Hand t
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