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leading medical authorities. Then he proposed to pre- 

 sent to the medical world of his own day, in a series of 

 paragraphs, all the chief points on which conflicting senti- 

 ments had been expressed ; to cite in each instance the 

 differing opinions, in order that a judgment might more 

 easily be formed as to the balance of authority. He him- 

 self always undertook to hazard a decision, testing the 

 judgment not only of the Prince of Physicians, but of 

 others ; in every case following, as his guide, Keason rather 

 than Authority. He would confirm or dispute past opi- 

 nions, and not shrink from the addition to them, now and 

 then, of views more properly his own. The reader was 

 thus also to be left fully provided with the materials re- 

 quired for independent judgment. The value of a work 

 of this kind, really well done, would of course be great, 

 and many sheets had been written in prosecution of the 

 plan when Jerome took a wife at Sacco. 



