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much more adequate and applicable to the 

 cause of complaint than the practice of for- 

 mer writers, the reason shall be constantly 

 adduced, and supported by incontrovertible 

 proof, why the present mode of treatment is 

 entitled to every degree of preference and 

 respect. 



Without becoming a convert to the usual 

 style of dividing and subdividing chapters, 

 cases, a:>d remedies, as has in general been 

 the custom, introducing a large proportion 

 of extraneous mattei', merely by way of 

 swelhng the woik (as a compHment to the 

 pecuninary sensations of the publisher) I 

 shall proceed, as in many other respects, the 

 direct contrary way, and contract the plan 

 as much as the consistency of circumstances 

 will permit, by bringing into classes such ac- 

 cidents or diseases as bear adegree of affinity 

 to each other, or come under a similar mode 

 of treatment ; and shall likewise (as much as 

 possible) divest each case and explanation 

 of technical terms, that every part may be the 

 iiiore universally comprehended. 



