At your first public entré, when the college list and court calendar have announced your qualifications and advancement to the wondering world (that such list should annually increase) let your friends and relatives be doubly assiduous in propagating reports (almost incredible) of your _great humanity_, _extensive abilities_, and _unbounded benevolence_.—This will answer the intended purpose to a certainty; crouds of the afflicted and necessitous will surround your habitation, and render your place of residence constantly remarkable to all classes, who naturally enquiring the character of the proprietor, will eagerly extol your charity in contributing your “advice to the poor GRATIS.” This method alone will gain you popularity with those that rank in the line of mediocrity; with _their superiors_, success must be insured more from the efforts of _interest_, than either _personal merit_, or _sound policy_. Your attention to the wants of the poor, must soon be regulated by the preponderation of more weighty considerations; as you _affected_ to alleviate their distresses from the motive of commiseration, prompting you to promote _their ease_, you have an undoubted right to shake off such superfluous visits, to secure _your own_. In this deceptive charity, some degree of discrimination must be put in practice, for you will sometimes perceive one among the train, whose apparel or behaviour must necessarily give you reason to suspect he has assumed the cloak of necessity to save _his fee_, and avail himself of your professional liberality in such case, call to your aid a look of true _medical austerity_, and let him understand “advice is seldom of any value or “effect unless it is paid for;” this will frequently answer the purpose, and procure what you did not expect. On the contrary, so soon as you observe your prescriptions have “_worked wonders_” upon two or three of the most _credulous_ and _superstitious_, who are extolling your _great knowledge_ and “blessing _your honour_,” strengthen the _force_ of your judgment by _charitably obtruding_ a pecuniary corroboration into the hand of your afflicted patient, as a confirmation of your _unbounded skill_ in the (_miraculous_) cure of every disease to which the human frame is incident. By such _political_ practice, you insure the recital of your services with extacy, and your name reverberates from one end of the metropolis to the other. Your person and place of residence, being by these means universally known, and your name become in a proportional degree popular, let your plan and mode of behaviour be instantly changed; it will be now necessary “You “assume a” hurry “if you have it not,”