It will be strictly proper for you, upon all occasions, to preserve the most inflexible serenity of countenance, even to extreme gravity; and this injunction becomes the more immediately necessary, as there are a vast variety of unexpected causes for laughter, to which you will be open, in the frequent applications of unpolished rustics, for your _great opinion_ and assistance. One class will “beg the favour of you to _subscribe_ for their complaints;” another “hopes you won’t be offended, but he is come to _insult_ you upon his case;” these instances are so exceedingly common, that you will often meet with them, where they are least expected. There now lives _an alderman_, in a very capital town and place of _royal residence_, who, a few years since, labouring under an _epidemic_ complaint, was told that symptoms were alarming, and a _glyster_ was unavoidably necessary; to which representation he expostulated, begging the apothecary “to lay aside his intention, and give him any thing to _take inwardly_, but for _God’s sake_, to have no _cutting_ and _slaying_.”—Another of the same _learned body corporate_ (for they have both kissed the K—g’s hand) said “he bore the severity of his complaint with more patience, now he was _manured_ to it.” To prove the frequency of these accidental slips, it is impossible to resist the present temptation of introducing a few more, that occur to memory in the present recital. A lad upon the borders of Northamptonshire, being sent in the night to a medical practitioner at Banbury, and calling him out of bed, told him, “he must come immediately to his mistress, for she had got a _Vistula_!”——“Where? _In ano?_” “No, Zir, in the next parish to’t.” In an excursion to Surrey, I was solicited in a parish near Chertsey, to give my advice to a master carpenter there, who had been a long time indisposed; but my prescription having had the desired effect, and the poor man getting abroad, he very gratefully declared to all his friends, “I was the _best musician_ that ever came into the country.”—In the county of Berks, an elderly woman came to consult me upon the bad state of her daughter’s health; and after animadverting upon symptoms, told me _in a whisper_, “that her daughter was to have been married to a young man some time since; but something happening to break it off, she really believed _’twas nature turned inward in her_.”