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rative procefs upon the animal oeconomy, 

 from which the reported good effcdts are 



SUPPOSED TO BE PRODUCED. 



I beheve I have before hinted their being 

 originally adopted in times of greater ob- 

 fcurity ; when the minds and manners wxre 

 not only much lefs enlightened, but the 

 almoft incredible property and power of 

 medicine not then difcovered and brought 

 palpably home, as it now is, to the moft 

 obftinate incredulity. In the remote age of 

 this invention, the volume of medical im- 

 provement might be juftly confidered in its 

 infancy, emerging from the early efforts of 

 antiquity; from which it has continued in 

 gradual refinement to its prefent period of 

 profeffional fplendor, under the indefatigable 

 aufpices of thofe whofe literary additions to 

 the works of fcience will perpetuate their 

 memories very far beyond any effuiions that 

 can poflibly fall from the grateful pen of 

 humble admiration. 



It muft therefore fuffice in additional con- 

 firmation of the improvement we applaud, 

 to obferve, that even in private pradice 



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