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amongft the humafi fpccies, thofe analogous 

 operations, issues and setons, in the courfe 

 of the laft forty or fifty years, are co7npara-^ ^ 

 iively obliterated ; bearing no kind of pro- 

 portion in common life, being but very fel- 

 dom either advifed or adopted, but where the 

 parties, from an invincible perfonal or ^^t//- 

 niary averfion to medicine, cannot be pre- 

 vailed upon to undergo fuch courfe as may 

 evidently repair the conjiitution^ to a certain 

 partial confu?nption of the purfe. 



After every obfervation I have been able 

 to deduce from theory, every rem.ark I could 

 colledt in praftice, and every information to 

 be derived from thofe Vulcanian Vete- 

 rinarians I have had the bono?' to confult -, 

 after the analization of its phyfical procefs 

 upon the frame ; its being immediately and 

 equally fed from the fountain of circulation 

 and fiipport ; a proper inveftigation and ex- 

 pofure of the ridiculous icea of partially 

 drawing off corrupt or dlfeajed particles from 

 the blood, that the animal may ** live the 

 purer with the other half;" and laflly, the 

 more contemptible propagation of their being 

 found applicable to all difeafes^ without a 



fingle 



