132 FARCY. 



ledge the '' fault" (as usual) to be in the 

 blood. 



That they are right must be admitted ; 

 and that they are so is the less extraordinary, 

 when a very superficial survey of the case 

 will evidently prove it would be a difficult 

 t^sk to be wrono\ One author crives us 

 many pages replete with figurative descrip- 

 tions, and runs through the whole animal 

 mechanism to demonstrate the cause very 

 clearly, but unluckily never draws nearer the 

 point than to prove what a writer of more 

 modern authority learnedly tells us in tivo 

 lines, that '' the true FARCY is properly a 

 '^ distemper of the blood vessels, which ge- 

 '' nerally follows the track of the veins/* 

 What infinite satisfaction must it afford 

 every reader, to be informed from the foun- 

 tain head of instruction, that '' the blood 

 *' vessels generally follow the track of the 

 '' veins 1*' Anxious for information, and open 

 to conviction, I receive the intellioence with 

 gratitude ; and, although my retentive fa- 

 culties are deceptive and imperfect, I shall 

 exert their utmost influence to preserve, in 

 high esteem, so excellent a monitor ; making 



