to visit us again) now attended us; and we having fee'd them the
instant they entered the room, according to the instructions of
our host, they bowed and smiled, and offered to introduce us to
whatever disease we pleased.

We set out several ways, as we were all to pay our respects to
different ladies. I directed my porter to show me to the Fever
on the Spirits, being the disease which had delivered me from the
flesh. My guide and I traversed many streets, and knocked at
several doors, but to no purpose. At one, we were told, lived
the Consumption; at another, the Maladie Alamode, a French lady;
at the third, the Dropsy; at the fourth, the Rheumatism; at the
fifth, Intemperance; at the sixth, Misfortune. I was tired, and
had exhausted my patience, and almost my purse; for I gave my
porter a new fee at every blunder he made: when my guide, with a
solemn countenance, told me he could do no more; and marched off
without any farther ceremony.

He was no sooner gone than I met another gentleman with a ticket,
i. e., an amber-headed cane in his hand. I first fee'd him, and
then acquainted him with the name of the disease. He cast
himself for two or three minutes into a thoughtful posture, then
pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket, on which he wrote
something in one of the Oriental languages, I believe, for I
could not read a syllable: he bade me carry it to such a
particular shop, and, telling me it would do my business, he took
his leave.

Secure, as I now thought myself, of my direction, I went to the
shop, which very much resembled an apothecary's. The person who