76 STRAINS. 



to extend their lenity for six weeks at least 

 in the former case, and two months in the 

 latter, lest, by an almost immediate relapsCr 

 they may have reason to repent their folly 

 or impatience, 



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Are a part of this treatise to which such 

 frequent application will be made for infor-* 

 mation, that they cannot be too accurately 

 explained for the purpose of being well un- 

 derstood. And as I would much rather ap- 

 peal to the taste and critical inquiries of the 

 intelligent and enlightened reader than the 

 caprice of the prejudiced vulgar, \ shall be 

 more anxious to obtain the approbation of 

 the judicious, by a minute and explanatory 

 investigation, than the sanction of the muU 

 titude by such a superficial account as would 

 best come into compact with the standard of 

 their comprehension. 



Previous to farther animadversion, it be- 

 comes unavoidably necessary to combat the 

 promulgated opinion of Osmer, who, in his 

 reniaiks, ventures an q^ssertion that ^' ten-* 



