without any other Surgeon but Time, any other Regimen but their uſual way of Living, and whoſe Cures were not the leſs perfect for their not having been tortured with Inciſions, poiſoned with Drugs, or worn out by Diet and Abſtinence. In a word, however uſeful Medicine well adminiſtered may be to us who live in a State of Society, it is ſtill paſt Doubt, that if, on the one hand, the ſick Savage, deſtitute of Help, has nothing to hope from Nature, on the other, he has nothing to fear but from his Diſeaſe; a Circumſtance, which often renders his Situation preferable to ours.
Let us therefore beware of confounding ſavage Man with the Men, whom we daily ſee and converſe with. Nature behaves towards all Animals left to her Care with a Predilection, that ſeems to prove how jealous ſhe is of that Prerogative. The
