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single professianal proof manfully and scienti-* 

 iicaliy demonstrated, that they are absolutely 

 necessary or infallible in onf ; it can create 

 no' admiration that I feel myself justified in 

 offering to the world an opinion, very little 

 subservient to tlie superficial decisions of 

 those who have preceded me upon this 

 subject. 



Under the combined weight af these con- 

 siderations, and so far as they entitle me to 

 offer judgment, I dare venture to pronounce 

 -and promulgate such belief, that there are 

 only a very few cases in which they are either 

 individually necesaarij or useful ; having it at 

 all in their effects, the power to produce 

 any such change in, or improvement upoii^ 

 the constitution ; but what may bemore con- 

 sistently (and to a greater certainty) produced 

 by judicious interposition oi evacuanfs, diu- 

 retics, alteratives, or such other class of medi^ 

 cines, as upon accurate investigation of the 

 cause, and reference to symptoms, may be 

 found coiTesponding with the case and its 

 explanatory parts, in our former volume^ 

 more particularly adapted to medical disqui- 

 sition and the cure of disease. 



