OBSERVATIONS. 9 



exculpated every page from the leaft accufation 

 of plagiarifm, as it will be found to differ very 

 materially from other publications upon the 

 fame fubjed, and the exaS reverfe of thofe in 

 circulation. The ftudious enquirer will be moft 

 feriouily difappointed if he expedls to find in 

 thefe pages a literal imitation and repetition of 

 Gibson's anatomical ftrudture, with the iden^ 

 iical plates and correfponding references, or a 

 dangerous combination of deftrudtive articles 

 heterogeneovjly blended and cruelly applied. 



Saying thus much to corroborate the intent 

 and meaning of our own work, it becomes 

 immediately applicable to repeat our affertions 

 refpedling the danger of others ; particularly in 

 thofe truly wo7iderfiil prefcriptive parts, fo ;//£?- 

 dejlly affirmed to be the conj unlive efforts of 

 learned phyficians.Jludious a?2atomijh, ^ndpro-^ 

 jicients injiirgery. That the practical know- 

 ledge of thefe ;76';/7/Wphyficians " in buckram'* 

 has far exceeded every thing prefcribed before 

 their time, the magnitude and almoft unli- 

 mited numxber of dangerous articles, introduced 

 in their recipes, will fufficiently demonftrate to 

 thole who are fo truly unfortunate as to have 

 the perufal fill to their lot 5 but more particu- 

 larly 



