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the cautions so repeatedly advanced in dif- 

 ferent parts of the Directory, some of which 

 may perhaps appear hereafter. 



It becomes, however, immediately appli- 

 cable to observe {eve?i here) how very much 

 depends, in ail cases of difficulty and dano^er, 

 upon drawing that nice and critical line of 

 distinction in the mode of treatment con- 

 stituting right or wrong, consequently de- 

 struction or cure. Not withstanding the pal- 

 pable necessity for such accurate investiga- 

 tion, time and observation daily demonstrate^ 

 in a variety of cases, the number of deaths 

 that frequently happen, where it is absohi- 

 tely natural to suppose the parties called iu 

 to relieve, had come with a fixed determina- 

 tion to destroy ; justifying this idea by the 

 many, who, not paying the least attention 

 to Nature, or her indications, the origin, 

 cause, or symptoms of disease, proceed to 

 their predetermined applications (whether in- 

 ternals or externals) with no emulation to 

 irupire^ no reputation to lose, no refined sen- 

 sations to soften, consequently no anxious de- 

 . sire to prompt a speedy alleviation of pain, 

 or mitigation of sufferings in the animal, ua-r 



