Take care to be so exceedingly engaged with patients of the _first class and eminence_, that “it is with difficulty you procure time sufficient for the common purposes and gratifications of nature.” No paupers _whatever_ can be admitted to your presence without a written recommendation from _nobility_, or characters of the _first fortune_; this will insure you no farther intrusion from a class originally introduced for your _particular purpose_; that effected, they may now be permitted to fall into the back ground of the picture; from whence they were brought for no other motive than the promotion of your personal interest and professional emolument. It becomes your particular care to be always in a _hurry_; let your chariot (if you can fortunately raise one) _upon job_, be at the door regularly by nine in the morning; to prove how very much you are attached to the duties of your profession, and how anxiously you have the _salubrity_ of your patients _at heart_.—Omit no one circumstance that can contribute to a shew of being perpetually engaged. Letters written by _yourself_, and messengers of your _own dispatching_, cannot be seen at your doors too frequently; the chariot should be as repeatedly ordered—remember to leave home by _one way_, and return by _another_, and equally _in haste_; all these stratagems are considered peculiar privileges of the _College of Wigs_, and are well worthy your attention and constant practice. You need hardly be told, the superficial and unthinking part of mankind are ever caught by appearances; what proportion they bear to other distinctions, need not in the present instance be at all ascertained. Having laid down rules (that should be rigidly persevered in) for the regulation of your _public character_, I shall now advert to the strict line of conduct it will be proper for you to adopt in your personal transactions upon all professional emergencies. When called to a patient upon the recommendation of the family apothecary, you are to consider him one of your best friends, and _pay court to him_ accordingly; on the contrary, if you are engaged upon the spontaneous opinion of the patient, or his relatives, you have every reason to conclude the abilities of the apothecary are held in very slender estimation, and you may safely venture to display as much of your _own consequence_ and superiority, as circumstances will admit.