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stood to hesitate a moment in pronouncing 

 such sudden deaths to be generally occasioned 

 by the means already assigned : the physical 

 process of which repulsion of per.spirative 

 matter, and its effects upon various habits, 

 are too minutely explained under the heads 

 of different diseases in many parts of our 

 former volume, to render further disquisition 

 in the least necessary. 



Forray own part, ever open to intellectual 

 improvement, and constantly courting con- 

 viction, I most anxiously wish to be inforj^ned 

 through the channel of systematic impartia- 

 lity, what can be hoped, wished, or expected 

 from a proceeding so entirely new ; that can- 

 not be more consistently obtained by the ut- 

 most extent of friction, properly persevered in, 

 with the usual modes of wisping, brush- 

 ing, and CLEANING, as in general use in 

 almostevery stable of uniformity in the king- 

 dom. Nor can I at all conceive, as every 

 thing that can be required relative to condi- 

 tion, labour, and appearance, is to be effected 

 by means divested of danger, why such un- 

 justifiable modes need be brought into prac- 

 tice, without a single consistent idea to j ustify 



