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too ridiculous to excite contempt j but, ia 

 compliment to the lefs informed reader^ it is 

 impoflible to pafs it over without branding 

 the very thought with the epithet it is fo juiliy 

 entitled to. 



What are we to think ohht pre ft^oual know-- 

 ledge or abilities of an author, who could fanc- 

 tion with his NAME the recommendation of 

 a pradice io infamous and detejiabk^ that no one 

 rational or confiftent idea can be produced or 

 pleaded to prove its propriety ! Will any advo- 

 cate for fuch INFERNAL PRACTICE, (and in- 

 fernal it certainly is in every meaning of the 

 word) venture to affirm the v/riter conceived or 

 poffefled a competent, or even a tolerable know- 

 ledge of the ilrudlure of parts or property of 

 medicine; that when the membranous fyftem 

 is locally injured, and the lacerated veffels 

 rendered highly irritable, could venture to pro- 

 mulgate the confiftency of glutting them with 

 the moft powerful poisons, as if hefeltfome 

 invincible aiitipathy to the fpecies, and had at- 

 tentively ftudied the moll: likely means of ef- 

 feding their total extirpation ! For the com- 

 pletion of this bufmefs, leil the moft deftruc- 

 tive poijons fhould prove ineireclujil, you are 



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