A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation

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by a monopoly, as they had in England."
The anfwer to this objection was,
" Would it not be better to permit a
monoply to preferve the health -and lives
of the people, than to fuffer ,quacks to
kill them, and ruin the province?"
The reply proved decifive in that fanatical
affembly, viz. "No medicine can be
ferviceable without the blefiing of God.
The quacks never adminill:er any phyfic
before the minill:er has prayed for a bleffing;
whereas the learned doctdrs fay, that
the bleffing is in their phyfic, without the
prayers ofminill:ers." One doctor prepofed
the trial of a dofe of arfenic; whether it
would not kill any-one who would take it,
though 20 minill:ers {bould pray againft
it. He was called a profane man - the
petition was rejected-and quackery remains
triumphant!
New-Milford lies on O[ootonoc river.
A church. and meeting, with fteeples
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