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been prevented by the precaution of minutely 

 inspecting, and properly comprehending, the 

 crasis of the blood ; the indispensable necessity 

 of which, I am anxiously induced to hope, 

 will acquire such' weight with those who are 

 adequate to the task of decision, that it will 

 in future become a business of more general 

 investigation. 



The repeated bleedings, the reduction of 

 aliment^ the perpetual administration of nitre, 

 (attenuating the blood that was before too 

 serous and watery) the injudicious interpo- 

 sition oi purges, and lastly, the insertion of 

 the rowel to assist in the general devastation, 

 certainly exceeds every idea that could have 

 been formed of random quackery and bodily 

 depredation ; this is, however, no more than 

 one representation of what i^ eternally carry- 

 ing on in different places under the inspec- 

 tion of those, who are too illiterate to possess 

 a consistent opinion of their own, and too im- 

 pertinently conceived to solicit assistance 

 from others. 



Despairing of success by any relief that 

 could be obtained from medicine^ I ordered 



