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impediment of lamenefs, which will In time 

 inevitably enfue, if not prevented by redudioa 

 or extirpation. Much advice, and many di- 

 redions, might here be obtruded of bliftering^ 

 Jiringi &c. but they all come fo immediately 

 within the department of the operative 

 FARRIFR5 that further animadverlion upon 

 the fubjedl will be totally foreign to the pre- 

 fcnt intention — one obfervation and recom- 

 mendation only excepted, viz. the neceffity, 

 in Gperatio7JSy of applying to praditioners of 

 EMINENCE, whofe judgment and execution 

 will require no greater pecuniary com.penfation 

 than thofe whofe comparative abilities entitle 

 them to no more than a mere manual ajjiftance 

 in furnifliing the apparatus. 



Previous to the difmiffion of this article, 

 I fhall, for the accommodation of thofe who 

 have never feen the publication, introduce 

 the diredtions given by Osmer for the cure,^ 

 as they literally appear in a trad of his com- 

 mitted to public infpedion about five-and- 

 twenty years ago ; but, I believe I may ven- 

 ture to affirm, the elaborate operation procured 

 very few converts to the pradice. 



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