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deftined to undergo a repetition of rafh, cruel/ 

 and inconfiderate experiments. 



To corroborate the juftice of this remark, is 

 it at all neceffary to go farther in retrofpedtion 

 than the lall cafe recited? — Can any rational 

 practitioner, whofe conduct is regulated by 

 integrity, and a proper attention to the indi- 

 cations of Nature, come forward and explain, 

 what could be expelled from the repeated ap- 

 plication oi Jirong mercurial ointment by one 

 operator, or the meaning of * a loft vein, and 



* its intentional recovery by the ufe of a ftrong 



* blifter,' in the other ? 



Whatever may have been the intent or ex- 

 pectation of either^ the event has fully proved 

 the fa(3:s fo repeatedly urged beyond the power 

 of contradiClion ; fuch unmeaning efforts of 

 fterility can only be the combined effeds of 

 vanity and prefumptuous impudence in the 

 firft ; profeffional ignorance, or the moft un- 

 limited confidence and deception, in the latter. 



Out of thefe confiderations will arife convic- 

 tion to fuch as do me the honour of attentive 



perufal. 



