OBSERVATIONS. 7 



evidently undergone a kind of regeneration by 

 its new birthy and is now become the child of 

 adoption ; fandioned with the authority of a 

 nominal voucher for the coi^fijlency of its imper-- 

 fe(flions, and ih^ propriety y of introducing the 

 mofl: incredible accumulation of prefcripiive 

 abfurdities that ever difgraced a medical work 

 offered to public infpedtion for the purpofe of 

 information. And what renders the impoli- 

 tion of ftill greater magnitude, is the very con- 

 fidential manner of proclaiming to the world 

 what every profeffor of medicine will inftanta- 

 neoufly refufe his affent to the belief of, viz. 

 that it is the joint produdion of an operative 

 farrier, phyficians, anatomifts, and profeffors 

 of furgery. 



The tafk of criticifm muft at all times be an 

 unpleafant performance, but much more par- 

 ticularly upon the prefent occafion, where it 

 will be abfolutely impoffible for me to difcharge 

 my obligation to an indulgent public (with 

 the necelTary precifion and impartiality) with- 

 out encountering, by this decifion, the pique or 

 refentment of all parties interefted in the fate 

 of fuch publication, or its efteft upon the mul- 

 titude. However, the predicament I now 

 B 4 fland 



