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To juftify, in a great meafure, the mode of 

 practice to be inculcated, and hereafter laid 

 down; to counteract the malicious or pre- 

 judiced remarks of the interefted or diffatisfied, 

 as well as to eftabliih, upon an incontrovertible 

 bajisy the rational, proper, and fuccefsfal me- 

 thods of treatment, recent cafes in point will be 

 quoted; and however improper it may be to 

 introduce the names of chara(5ters too eminent 

 for fuch publication, yet no kind of fecrccy 

 will be at all neceffary refpedting the parties, 

 whenever thofe fubjedis become the profeflional 

 topics of converfation bctwepn the author and 

 his friends. 



Such cafes will be likewife illuftrated to de- 

 monftrate the confiitency, propriety, and fuc- 

 cefs of modern pra^ice, in oppofition to the 

 ancient fyftem, fo repeatedly enlarged upon in 

 the courfe of the work. A very great number 

 of literary applications having been addreffed 

 to the author, from different parts of the king- 

 dom, requiring a farther explanation upon 

 many fubjeds, and a continuation of ^y^^/^^rj", it 

 is his earneft defire to elucidate every paffhge, 

 •fo' as to render it perfedly clear, and to de- 

 scend to fuch minutiae, for the gratification of 

 E 2 4 inquirers. 



