xii INTRODUCTION. 
advertisements of strayed cowsand the pedigrees of horses, in 
_ every tavern throughout the country, present the shameless, in- 
delible, unretracted misdemeanour, of thrusting, by unparalell-_ 
ed folly, our names with the adventitious influence of profession- 
al exaltation and high office, into the astonished countenances of 
our brethren—doves not, by the infraction ofall decorous behavi- 
our, strike at the reputation andraze the professional foundation 
of subsistence and business, of those beginning to receive, or 
confirmed in the deserved confidence of the community— 
does not crush the youth, aspiring to the requisite knowl 
edge of learned distinction in his art, by the prostrating club 
of a Hercules wrestling with a many-headed monster, We 
have never done those deeds, which can forcibly, merit-_ : 
y, subject us to the application of a certain homely but 
as lag dishonored our | profession, which r 
take the bold stand of averting, does not contain one single re- 
Sspectable member from one ——. of the ee: ee : 
any rebuke he may gate fod the: vices 
:° The profession. has long waited for a rel 
