OBSERVATIONS. 7 



nisecl in a different form and periodical ap- 

 pearance.* It has evidently undergone a 

 kind of regeneration by its nezv birth, and is 

 now become the child of adoption ; sanction-, 

 ed with the authority of a nominal voucher 

 for the consistency of its imperfections, and 

 the propriety of introducing the most incre- 

 dible accumulation of prescriptive absurdi- 

 ties that ever diss^raced a medical work of- 

 fered to public inspection for the purpose of 

 information. And w4iat renders the imposi- 

 tion of still greater magnitude, is the very 

 confidential manner of proclaiming to the 

 world, what every professor of medicine will 

 instantaneously refuse his assent to the be-* 

 lief of, viz. that it is the joint production of 

 an operative farrier, physicians, anatomists, 

 and professors of surgery. 



The task of criticism must at all times bean 

 unpleasant performance, but much more par- 

 ticularly itpon the present occasion, where it 

 will be absolutely impossible for nrie to dis- 

 charge my obligation to an indulgeiit public 

 {witli the necessary precision and impartia-» 



* A Syhtera of Farriery, in weekly numbers. 



