green silk curtain (with brass rods and rings) be affixed to your window; it is an excellent method of conveying an idea of internal mystery, and inspiring proportionate external curiosity. Let no paltry diffidence appear in the board over your door, announcing your name and qualifications; there are great numbers that can’t distinguish _small letters_ at a distance, to avoid which inconvenience, let the capitals be as conspicuous as the canvas figures at a country puppet-shew. “Thus far before the wind;” and being (as it is natural to conclude) not greatly engaged, it becomes your immediate attention to wait personally upon the different overseers of the surrounding parishes, and give them most forcibly to understand, they have been for many years the subjects of imposition; but you having more _honesty_ than the whole body of the faculty, will undertake to _farm_ the medical superintendance of the _poor_, at half the annual sum it has ever cost the inhabitants before. This political stroke will excellently answer both your purposes, for overseers in general care not how little they pay; and you being professionally callous to the tears of poverty and distress, care not how little you give for their money. _Tartar emetic_—_Pulv. contray._ c.—_Pulv. nitri_, and _Pulv. jalapii_—are medicines admirably calculated for the constitutions of the poor; and thirty or forty shillings a year in those articles, will be sufficient for the consumption of _five_ or _six_ parishes; with the additional advantage of rendering _vials_ unnecessary, a consideration of some consequence, when it is remembered they are now double their former price. These parochial connections will be productive of advantage in more ways than one, for as the unhappy paupers will be constantly seen at your door, it will afford all the appearance of sudden popularity. Ostentatious parade, and personal consequence, must be your leading traits, and never lost sight of; _a couple of horses_ will contribute largely to these objects; not that you are expected to degrade the dignity of your profession, by riding, like Hughes or Astley, _two at a time_, but their appearance will constitute an admirable shew of business in being rode _alternately_; and as most young men who have not been long their own masters, are fond of displaying their persons on the _outside of a horse_, you may exultingly not only “feed fat” the propensity, but the general run of your mechanical neighbours (who see no farther than the tips of their noses, and are ever caught by appearances) will erroneously suppose you are visiting some of the first characters in the county. As it will be now highly derogatory for you to stain your hands with any menial services, procure speedily a _journeyman_ (alias assistant) to enhance your own weight; if there is at present nothing for him to do, the curtain, before recommended, will obscure his indolence from the prying eye of public curiosity.