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the fame uniform and invariable opinion ; that 

 the public are eternally peftered with innu- 

 merable advertifements, announcing the 772/- 

 raculous cures, (nature has performed) 

 but not a fingle word of the many thoufands 

 fuch medicines have deftroyed : fo true it is, 

 ** dead men tell no tales.^* 



Having gone through what I conceive a 

 duty incumbent, refpeding the operation of 

 phyfic and its efFeds upon the frame, to 

 elucidate, as much as circumftances would 

 admit, a fubjed that has been hitherto con- 

 fidered as fufficient matter to juftify and fup- 

 port a contrariety of opinions ; I muft, after 

 giving it fuch profeffional explanation as my 

 flender abilities were adequate to, fubmit the 

 propriety of the pradice, under conditional 

 regulations, to the decifion of thofe who may 

 do me the honour of minutely inveftigating, 

 what has been neceffarily advanced for ge- 

 neral confideration : begging permifiion to 

 obferve, that particular inftrudions for the 

 management of horfcs under the operation 

 of PHYSIC, may be found in the former 

 volume under that head ; the prefent pages 

 having been dedicated entirely to the ope- 

 4 rative 



