vill INTRODUCTION. 
to weigh with such just weights as my abilities afforded, the dross 
of materia medica and therapeutics, against the pure meta! , and 
to sift with as much energy as Tam capable of, the shop-dirt 
from the medicamenis. It is on this process that the usefulness 
of these pages is grounded, 
With regard to this, the third pretension of these outlines, I 
would observe that they have found their way into your hands, 
with the expectation of being useful to you— That I may not be 
disappointed in this, is my sincere hope - Asad baulk would it 
be to one who has no other means which he deems justifiable 
or creditable, of making afavourable impression on those ¢ = 
mitted to his surveillance in one part of the duties to be per- 
formed a by them during the ponage of their profession : to one 
, should ever 
find any ines in the work which they ean find i in no other, net 
even in the late Professor Barton’. s Lectures, that magazine of 
facts and information'*the plenitude of which has afforded, even 
by the feies notes of his Layer a fruitful source of depredatign 
considered Large, if shete he as Pawel dow t, any eek © 
dicin But I ap not at all solicitous 
