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intelligence with gratitude; and although my 

 retentive faculties are deceptive and imper- 

 fect, I (hall exert their utmoft influence to 

 preferve, in high efteem, fo excellent a 

 monitor ; making no doubt but it will prove 

 highly fatisfa&ory to the curious, to be inform- 

 ed they need not look for a diftemper of the 

 blood-veffels in the track of the inteftines." 

 Is it poffible that Mr. Taplin, who has made 

 books, and blurred fuch a confiderable quan- 

 tity of paper, could be fo ignorant of the moil 

 fimple and obvious rules of grammatical con- 

 cord, as not to know, that vejfels in the plural, 

 could not govern the verb follows, which is in 

 the fingular number? Of courfe, that Bartlet 

 both intended, and correctly expreifed, that the 

 farcy, not the blood-vcffcls, generally followed 

 the track of the veins. 



Taplin proceeds — " Previous to the prefent 

 improved and rational fyftem of cure, it may 

 be applicable to introduce one of the promifed 

 obfervations, upon the dangerous and almoft 

 obfolete practice of others, or rather the mofl 

 cruel experiments, and infernal perfecutions 

 that were ever invented, or could be fuppofed 

 to enter into the mind of man, for the preven- 

 tion, or cure, of difeafe. In the lafl article 

 treated on, we produced a tolerable fyftem of 

 cruelty; but in the farcy (as a more perplexing 



f 2 difeafe, 



