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cafes, which will occur to the judicious prac- 

 titioner." 



Without indulging the leaft dcfirc or 

 intention to animadvert with fcverity upon 

 the different writers who have thus rota- 

 tionally repre Tented the accumulated per- 

 fedion of rowels, (that feem in their pro- 

 grefs for the laft century, to have ac- 

 quired, like the nojlrums of the prefent 

 day, the virtues, of curing all difeafes) it 

 is very natural to conclude, that the above 

 lift, in each of which they are faid to be 

 *' of great ufe," with the repeated intro- 

 dudlion of *' et c?eteras/* and the variety 

 of '' other cafes fubmitted to the judicious 

 pradlitioner," that there can be hui very 

 feit\ or, in fad, none^ to which they are not 

 in the opinions of /6';/^£', perfedly applica- 

 ble in ens way ^or ^^/o//6^r, perhaps in no 

 one more than the felf-evident confolation, 

 if it docs no good, it may do no harm 1 it 

 will at any rate lupr^rt the appearance- of 

 bufinefs ! If nature ericds her own pur* 

 pofc and j;romotes a cure, the rowel will be 

 entilied to a pdition of credit, and the' ope- 

 5 rator 



