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exception ; notwithstanding it is of so irruc?r 

 consequence in medical management, that 

 it becomes matter of admiration, how the 

 enlightened part of the world can be so fre- 

 quently made the dupes of a most consum- 

 mate ignorance, without summoning to 

 their assistance an opinion of their own, ta 

 justify the consistency or prevent the erro?: 

 of such proceeding. For my own part, after 

 endeavournig mast industriously for many 

 years, to fathom the depth of st farrier s in- 

 tellectual and professional abilities, without 

 being enabled to place any part to their credit 

 account ; and constantly drawing a mental 

 comparison between the good they might 

 possibly do, and the mischief they would 

 certainly occasion, I have long since found it 

 necessary to decline every dependence upon 

 either; feeling myself perfectly justified in 

 recommending it most heartily to every 

 reader possesshig the least attachment to the 

 species ; never to suffer a medicine to be 

 given> or an operation to be performed, be- 

 fore the expected process of the former, 

 and the intentional effect of the latter, 

 arc previously explained to his entire satis- 

 faction. 



