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0716 side, as may require no uncommmi' 

 powers of comprehension 07i the other. Au- 

 thors arc too frequently vain of their own^ 

 ^biUties, and seem to believe too much mat- 

 ter cannot be introduced (however extra- 

 neous or digressive) to give their works the 

 appearance of elaborate study and profound 

 erudition : losing the subject in an affected 

 sublimity of diction, without adverting to^ 

 the great numbers wha either wish to ac- 

 quire information by every possible means^ 

 where the trouble of reading can be avoided, 

 or to obta/in the purport of their medical 

 researches by the most superficial and least 

 expensive inquiry* 



The vari'oiis animadversions of different 

 writers, under this head, are evidently toa 

 closely wrapped in the veil of obscurity, and 

 seem purposely addressed much more to the 

 anatomical judgment of the scientific Artist 

 and operative Farrier, than to the understand- 

 ings of the many, by whom we are to s«p- 

 pose it should be equally understood. An ele- 

 gant arrangement of words, and ambiguity 

 of expression, may constitute a loftiness of 

 style more pleasing to the gentleman or the 



