INTRODUCTION. = —_ Vii 
inind’s brow, and by borrowing the pipe they have handseled, 
blowing out our would-be authority as teachers and authors 
into a gandy, particoloured bubble of soap, which, as soon as _ 
touched at home or abroad by the finger of investigation—bursts, 
vanishes in air or falls to the earth, There, the condensed 
drop of which the whole inflated volume of gas was distended 
would not be sufficient by its irrigation or enrichment, to cause 
a moss to shoot from the extended soil of medical learning. 
Thus much for the first pretention of these outlines: candour 
is their secord claim. Relative to this I would observe, the 
most of what aed contains is a mere common place i information to 
what all know to be the aggregate result of more than half a 
century’ sexperience and instruction. If facts given to the 
‘profession by some of the writers of the day, in Europe, are 
not coupled with their names, let the ‘unpretending tenor of 
the work and. these declarations, stand a comprehensive conces- 
sion of sie value of their authors experience for which am 
in the jadie ous or 'filjedged: ebes 
may have taken = my feng * My own gi 
