PREF 5A..C-E. ix 
judging upon the prefént occafion. I could 
with therefore that fuch*readers would pafs 
over what I have faid, and attend only to 
the communications from correfpondents, 
becaufe they cannot be fuppofed to poffefs 
any unjuft predilection in favour of the me- 
dicine : but I cannot advife them to this ftep,- 
for I am certain they would then clofe the 
book, with much higher notions of the effi- 
cacy of the plant than what they would haye 
learnt from me. Not that I want faith in 
the difcernment or in the veracity of my 
correfpondents, for they are men of eftab- 
lifhed reputation; but the cafes they have 
fent me are, with pone Pees too | 
much felected. _ They are not upon 
count lefs valuable i in D heritelves, or they 
are not the proper premifes from which to 
draw permanent conclufions. 
I wifh the reader to keep in view, that it 
is not my intention merely to introduce a 
new diuretic to his acquaintance, but one 
which, though not infallible, I believe to be 
much 1 more certain than any other in _pre- . 
 fent ufe. . ieee 
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