OBSERVATIONS. 7 



evidently undergone a kind of regeneration by- 

 its new birthy and is now become the child of 

 adoption ; fandioned with the authority of a 

 nominal voucher for the confifiency of its im per- 

 fections, and the propriety of introducing the 

 moft incredible accumulation of prefcriptive 

 abfurdities that ever dlfgraced a medical work 

 offered to public infpedtion for the purpofe of 

 information. And what renders the impofi^ 

 tion of ftill greater magnitude, is the very con-^ 

 fidential manner of proclaiming to the world 

 what every profeffor of medicine will inftanta^ 

 neoully refufe his aifent to the belief of, viz. 

 that it is the joint production of an operative 

 farrier, phyficians, anatomifts, and profeffors of 

 furgery. 



The talk of criticifrrt muft at all times be an 

 unpleafant performance, but much more par- 

 ticularly upon the prefent occafion, where it 

 will be abfclutely impoffible for me to difcharge 

 my obligation to an indulgent public (with 

 the necelTary precifion and impartiality) with- 

 out encountering, by this decifion, the pique or 

 refentment of all parties interefled in the fate 

 of fuch publication, or its effedls upon the mul- 

 titude. However, the predicament I now 



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