THE ÆSCULAPIAN LABYRINTH EXPLORED; OR, MEDICAL MYSTERY ILLUSTRATED. IN A SERIES OF INSTRUCTIONS TO YOUNG PHYSICIANS, SURGEONS, ACCOUCHERS, APOTHECARIES, DRUGGISTS, AND PRACTITIONERS OF EVERY DENOMINATION, IN TOWN AND COUNTRY. INTERSPERSED WITH A VARIETY OF RISIBLE ANECDOTES AFFECTING THE FACULTY. INSCRIBED TO THE COLLEGE OF WIGS, BY GREGORY GLYSTER, AN OLD PRACTITIONER. “TWENTY MORE! KILL THEM TOO.”——BOBADIL. LONDON: PRINTED FOR G. KEARSLEY, NO. 46, FLEET-STREET. MDCCLXXXIX. [PRICE THREE SHILLINGS AND SIX-PENCE.] TO THE COLLEGE OF WIGS. “Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, “My very noble and approved good” Doctors. The solemnity of your somniferous aspects, no less than the professional gravity of your external ornaments, lay claim to a bow of obedient recollection in passing through W—— k-lane to public inspection. As one of the most _popular_ descendants from your great progenitor, permit me to acknowledge, I revere the _vast extent_ of your _medical abilities_; that I feel most forcibly the _enormous weight_ of your _accumulated learning_, and _tremble_ at the very idea of your _experimental abilities_. Condescend, dread Sirs, to sanction this analization of _Æsculapian imposition_ and _medical mystery_, with such proof of approbation, as the dignity of a _diploma_, and the muscular rigidity of _physical countenance_ will permit you to bestow; nor let it be the less entitled to your favor, that a long list of _valetudinarians_ (to whom you are daily pensioners) become partakers of the _banquet of mirth_; or the small fry of _pharmacopolists_ (your humble dependents) _for once_ permitted to take a seat at the _same table_ with yourselves. Anxiously solicitous to obtain belief, that “I shall nothing extenuate, “Nor set down aught in malice,” you may in justice conclude me, _Sage Sirs!_ Your very candid, And obedient representative, GREGORY GLYSTER. THE ÆSCULAPIAN LABYRINTH EXPLORED. TO THE PHYSICIAN.