Exclusive of these qualifications, and the many instructions already introduced under the two preceding heads (to which you may occasionally refer) there are a great variety that must be advanced for _your particular use_, and to those you will, no doubt, pay every proper attention, if you indulge the least desire to become a popular member of the faculty. In respect to personal appearance, former distinctions and peculiarities are in some degree levelled, the world is very much relaxed in its severities, and the apothecary mixes with the general herd of mankind, without those distinguishing exteriors that _were_ his professional characteristics. The gilt-headed cane and enormous tassel are no longer in use; the _full-bottom wig_, that so universally ornamented the _os frontis_ of the faculty in general, is now almost laid aside with inferior classes, and engrossed by the _college_. The apothecary (particularly in the country) is in every respect free from the illiberal censure of former times, and treading close upon the heels of the _parson_ and the _lawyer_, enjoys, without restraint, the _chace_, the _gun_, the _bottle_, and _bona-roba_. These, if you are of a volatile disposition and amorous constitution, afford (at seasonable opportunities) a happy and high relished relaxation from the many severities of medical practice. Having fixed upon your intended spot for embarkation, let every thought be employed to display an attracting uniformity in the disposition of your apparatus, for the _claptrap_ of public approbation; and though that great investigator of human nature has beautifully portrayed “_a beggarly account of empty boxes_,” yet they become immediately necessary to your present purpose; it not being his business to explain the folly and extravagance of your placing any thing of consequence there, before you was experimentally convinced you should have occasion for its use. Let there be a _profusion of appearance_; the _shell_ of a shop is not very expensive, and druggists are so numerous, that you may be expeditiously supplied whenever circumstances require it.—The bottles (being transparent) become more immediately in need of _something_ in each, particularly a few of those articles (as hartshorn, lavender, &c.) that are in common request. The lower drawers (within reach) may be labelled with _obsolete titles_, and in each placed various paper parcels of _bran_ or _saw-dust_, to avoid a chance of the sarcasm upon the faculty by a countryman, who happened to be left alone some time in the shop of an apothecary, and whose curiosity being excited by the great _number of drawers_, was powerfully prompted to open one labelled “_Thus_,” which finding _empty_, he was induced to try a second, _still the same_; a third, _the same also_.—Oh! oh! says he, “I see plain enough how it is, they are all _Thus_.” Your shop being at length finished in a stile modern and striking, let a