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adapted to every comprehension, that I am 

 satisfied to rest the certainty of its process, 

 and my own professional reputation, upon 

 the arbitrative decision of any impartial in- 

 vestigator. And that this comparative pro- 

 cess may be brought to a speedy termina- 

 tion, I shall only beg leave to observe, if Mr. 

 Clarke's hypothesis, '' that no discovery 

 can be made from the blood when cold,'' is 

 a fact, or the '' viscid, poor, and dispirited 

 hlood'" of Bracken, can be defined one and 

 the same thing, divested of paradoxical com- 

 plication, and such eccentric opinions are 

 founded in truth, and can be supported by i«- 

 controvertible facts ; my assertions, however 

 scientific, however established by time, and 

 confirmed by experience, must inevitably 

 fall unsupported to the ground, unworthy the 

 future attention of those by whose approba- 

 tion and applause I have been so highly 

 honoured. 



Having endeavoured to rescue from public 

 prejudice any hasty decisions that might be 

 made upon such clashing opinions undefined ; 

 we return to the operation of bleeding, re- 

 commended previous to the constant exer- 



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