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were held ; but consultation and emulation 

 producing no discovery, at the end of three 

 weeks a second letter arrived from the Dean 

 *^ soliciting pardon for an omission in his 

 ** last, which was to inform the society that 

 ** the LEG was of wood.'' I introduce this 

 circumstance not as a burlesque upon so great 

 and learned a body, but to prove that such, 

 as well as individuals, are liable to error and 

 misconstruction. 



My predecessor (as I have before remark- 

 ed) then says, ^' with some farther experi- 

 ^' ments and improvements he hopes this dis~ 

 *^ temper will be brought to a certainty of 

 ** cure.'* Now wiiat he can wish or desire 

 by '' farther experiments and improve- 

 ^' ments,'' is beyond my abilities to disco- 

 ver : lie descends most minutely to the ope- 

 ration of trepanning ; or, in plainer terms, 

 taking two pieces of bone out of different 

 parts of the scull by perforation, then plen- 

 tifully soaking with detergent lotions, adding, 

 a variety of instructions for injections, dress^ 

 ings, &c. to complete a cure of what, tillthen, 

 had been considered incurable. To keep up 

 the farce of inconsistency, we are at last con- 



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