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globe. And where the applications of modefrl 

 invention are introduced, as much more ade^ 

 quate and apph'cable to the caufe of complaint 

 than the pradllce of former writers, the reafon 

 Aall be conftantly adduced, and fupported by 

 incontrovertible proof, why the prefent mode 

 of treatment is entitled to every degree of pre- 

 ference and refpcdt. 



Without becoming a convert to the ufual 

 ftyle of dividing and fubdividing chapters, cafes, 

 and remedies, as has in general been the cuftom^ 

 introducing a large proportion of extraneous 

 matter, merely by way of fwelling the work 

 (as a compliment to the pecuniary fenfations of 

 the publiflier) I fliall proceed, as in many other 

 refpeds, the direft contrary way, and contradl 

 the plan as much as the confiftency of circum- 

 ftances will permit, by bringing into clafles 

 fuch accidents or difeafes as bear a degree of 

 affinity to each other, or come under a fimilar 

 mode of treatment ^ and fhall likevvife (as 

 much as poffible) diveft each cafe and explan- 

 ation of technical tennSy that every part may 

 be the more univerfally comprehended. 



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