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THROUGH SWEDEN. 17
have all of them, at fome period or other, been those alfo of the
higher orders of fociety. At great and formal dinners in Sweden,
it is ufual to drink healths out of large filver cups filled with
rhenifh or champaign. The cup goes round, and every one taftes
of it, fimilar to the old cuftom of pledging,* still practifed at
fome Englifh corporation-feafts. There are certain rules to be
observed, with which the guefts are previoufly made acquainted.
If these be not duly attended to, the delinquent, by way of pu-
nifhment, is obliged to drink off a whole cup.
It has been very generally remarked, and I believe justly, that
the apothecaries of Gothenburg are not so ignorant as the fame
clafs of men in Paris, Amfterdam, and many other great cities.
Men’s prefumption and difregard to consequences being always
in proportion to the narrownefs of their education and under-
fianding ; we may justly fear that dreadful havoc is made, by these
triers of experiments, among the blind and credulous multitude.
At Gothenburg the apothecaries have the advantage of a liberal.
education; {fo that if the inhabitants have the fame propenfity as
those of other places, to fly to these underlings of the medical art
rather than toa phyfician, they may indulge it at leaft with lefs.
danger.
* This cuftom is obvioufly derived from the fecurity found neceflary to be
given in Gothic ages, that an individual should not be flabbed while he was
faking his draught.
Vee, D CHAPTER
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