396 UINGBONES. 



unconnected with the investigation of dis- 

 ease or method of cure. It has been the in- 

 tention, through the course of this work, to 

 render both the original cause of complaint, 

 and necessary administration of medicine, as 

 clear as the nature of each case would admit ; 

 such explanatory passages hax^ing been blend- 

 ed WMth the different parts as must perfectly 

 reconcile the whole to every comprehension. 

 Enough has been said under the distinct 

 heads of GREASE, HIDE^BOUND, SUR- 

 FEIT, MANGE, and FARCY, to incul- 

 cate not only a just idea of the blood's 

 circulation, its changes and effects, but to 

 establish a clear and perfect conception of 

 all those causes that constitute the founda- 

 tion of diseases so long sagaciously distin- 

 guished by the denomination of '' HU- 

 MOURS,'' in failure of a more scientific or 

 satisfactory explanation. 



Influenced originally in the plan and for- 

 mation of this work by no other motive than 

 the general good ; and after twenty years 

 experience and observation, being more per- 

 fectly conviviced of the grov/ing necessity for 

 feuch publication, it is now submitted to public 



