4S P H Y S I C, &c. 



globe. And where the applications of modern 

 invention are introduced, as much more ade- 

 quate and applicable to the caufe of complaint 

 than the pradiice of former writers, the reafon 

 ihall be conftantly adduced, and fupported by 

 incontrovertible proof, why the prefent mode 

 of treatment is entitled to every degree of pre- 

 ference and refpecft. 



Without becoming a convert to the ufjal 

 ftyle of dividing and fubdividing chapters, cafes, 

 and remedies, as has in general been the cuftom, 

 introducing a large proportion of extraneous 

 matter, merely by way of fweliing the work 

 (as a compliment to the pecuniary fenfations of 

 the publilher) I fhall proceed, as in many other 

 refpedls, the diredl contrary way, and contract 

 the plan as much as the confiilency of circum- 

 fiances will permit, by bringing into clalTes 

 fuch accidents or difeafes as bear a degree of 

 affinity to each other, or come under a fimilar 

 mode of treatment; and iliall likewife (as 

 much as poffible) divefl each cafe and expla- 

 nation of technical terms ^ that every part may 

 be the more univerfally comprehended. 



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