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the cautions lb repeatedly advanced In differ- 

 ent parts of the Diredtory,) fome of which may 

 perhaps appear hereafter. 



It becomes, however, immediately applica- 

 ble to obferve (even here] how very much 

 depends, in all cafes of difficulty and danger, 

 upon drawing that nice and critical line ofdif- 

 tindlion in the mode of treatment conftituting 

 right or wrong, confequently, dell:ru<ftion or 

 cure. Notwithftanding the palpable neceffity 

 for fuch accurate invefligation, time and obfer- 

 vation daily demonllrate, in a variety of cafes, 

 the number of deaths that frequently happen, 

 where it is abfolutely natural to fuppofe the 

 parties called in to relieve, had come with a 

 fixed determination to dejlroy, j unifying this 

 idea by the many, who, not paying the leaft 

 attention to Nature, or her indications, the 

 origin, caufe, or fymptoms of difeafe, proceed 

 to their predetermined applications (whether 

 internals or externals) with no emulation to 

 injpire, no reputation to kfe, no refined i^w- 

 fations tofoften, confequently no anxious de/ire 

 to prompt a fpeedy alleviation of pain, or mi- 

 tigation of fufferings in the animal, unluckily 



deil:ined 



