A modern dissertation on a certain necessary piece of household furniture.

Date:
1752
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A modern dissertation on a certain necessary piece of household furniture. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *5 )■ ful Mortals tortured almoft to Death by fevere Pains in their Bowels. N o Monarch on his Throne can be greater than a Man fo comfortably feated : He may truly be laid at that Inftant to be perfe&dy happy ; As in prafenti Perfeclum format> Many excellent Pieces of Inftiuc- tion may be drawn from the Com¬ fort, Convenience, and Advantage of thefe handy Utenlils. But as it would be an Affront to the learned Reader to point them out, I fhall leave them to his own Obfervation ; premising only, that he cannot fail to be rightly informed in thofe Par¬ ticulars if he confults the Authors that are quoted in this little Work; — -leAio jufia docebit. I have taken up) a Subject, which, at firft Sight, 1 confefs, does feem more