tion to the _Materia Medica_, of which many
first-rate physicians may not be aware--by proposing a

=Recipe for Illustration.=

Take any passage from any author--to wit: the following
(which I have done, quite at random) from SPEED: '_Henry le
Spenser_, the warlike _Bishop of Norwich_, being drawn on by
_Pope Vrban_ to preach _the Crusade_, and to be General
against _Clement_ (whom sundry _Cardinals_ and great
_Prelates_ had also elected Pope) having a fifteenth granted
to him, for that purpose, by _parliament_,' &c. _Historie of
Great Britaine_, p. 721, edit. 1632. Now, let the reader
observe, here are _only four_ lines; but which, to be
PROPERLY ILLUSTRATED, should be treated thus: 1st, procure
all the portraits, at all periods of his life, of _Henry le
Spencer_; 2dly, obtain every view, ancient and modern, like
or unlike, of the city of _Norwich_; and, if fortune favour
you, of _every Bishop of the same see_; 3dly, every portrait
of _Pope Vrban_ must be procured; and as many prints and
drawings as can give some notion of _the Crusade_--together
with a few etchings (if there be any) of _Peter the Hermit_
and _Richard I._, who took such active parts in the Crusade;
4thly, you must search high and low, early and late, for
every print of _Clement_; 5thly, procure, or you will be
wretched, as many fine prints of _Cardinals_ and _Prelates_,
singly or in groups, as will impress you with a proper idea
of _the Conclave_; and 6thly, see whether you may not
obtain, at some of our most distinguished old-print sellers,
views of the _house of Parliament_ at the period (A.D.
1383.) here described!!! The result, gentle reader, will be
this: you will have work enough cut out to occupy you for
one whole month at least, from rise to set of sun--in
parading the streets of our metropolis: nor will the expense
in _coach_ hire, or _shoe leather_, be the least which you
will have to encounter! The prints themselves may cost
_some_thing! Lest any fastidious and cynical critic should
accuse me, and with apparent justice, of gross exaggeration
or ignorance in this _recipe_, I will inform him, on good
authority, that a late distinguished and highly respectable
female collector, who had commenced an ILLUSTRATED BIBLE,
procured not fewer than _seven h