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confeqiience in medical management, tha:t 

 it becomes matter of admiration, how the 

 enlightened part of the world can be fo fre- 

 quently made the dupes of a moft confum- 

 mate ignorance, without fummoning to 

 their affiftance an opinion of their own, to 

 juftify the confiftency or prevent the error 

 of fuch proceeding. For my own part, after 

 endeavouring m.oft induflrioufly for many 

 years, to fathom the depth of a Farrter^s 

 intelledlual and profeffional abilities, without 

 being enabled to place any part to their credit 

 ciccompt ; and conftantly drawing a mental 

 comparifon between the good they might 

 fojfibly do, and the mifchief they would 

 certamly occajion^ I have long fince found it 

 neceflliry to decline every dependence upon 

 either : feeling myfelf perfedly juftified in 

 recommending it moft heartily to every 

 reader polTcfling the leaft attachment to the 

 fpecics ; never to fuffer a medicine to be 

 given, or an operation to be performed, be- 

 fore the expefted procefs of the former, 

 nnd the intentional efted of the latter, 

 are previoufly explained to his entire fatis- 

 fadion. 



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