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rative process "^iipon the animal economr, 

 from which the reported good effects are sup- 

 posed TO BE PRODUCED, 



I believe I have before hinted their being 

 originally adopted in times of greater ob- 

 scurity ; when the minds and manners w^re 

 not only much less enlightened, but the 

 almost incredible property and power of 

 medicine not then disco veiled and brought 

 palpably home, as it now is, to the most 

 obstinate incredulity. In the remote age 

 of this invention, the volume of medical im*- 

 provement might be justly considered in its 

 infancy, emerging from the early efforts of 

 antiquity ; from which it has continued in 

 gradual refinement to its present period of 

 professional splendor, under the indefatigable 

 auspices of those whose literary additions to 

 the works of science will perpetuate their 

 memories very far beyond any effusions that 

 can possibly fall from the grateful pen of 

 humble admiration. 



It must therefore suflFice, in additioiial con-* 

 firmation of the improvement we applaud, 

 to observe, that even in private practice 



