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profefTors, the public mind would have been 

 amply repaid for all the expence and folicitude 

 attending the inftitution." — For my part, I fliall 

 venture to fay, that it is well the College has a 

 good flock of original merit, as a national in- 

 ftitution, or the fenfelefs puffs of its various 



" d d good-natured friends" would abfo- 



lutely work its ruin, in the public efteem. In 

 No. 2. of the above Magazine, as the title of 

 p. 141, I obferved, Deabere Blaine— be- 

 low, I found a criticifm on Mr. Blaine's work, 

 with the following extraordinary announce- 

 ment, which I haften to communicate to my 

 medical readers, that they may, if they pleafe, 

 take immediate advantage thereof: On ac- 

 count of the defefts of the Nofology of Cullen, 

 and the failure of Darwin's attempts at improve- 

 ment — " fome more methodical and fcientific 

 arrangement may be reafonably expefted from 

 the prefent (Mr. Blaine's) attention to the fub- 

 jeft." By whom the above articles were writ- 

 ten I would not prefume even to guefs. There 

 is farther a conhderation, which ought to have 

 had weight with Mr. Blaine. Is he not plainly 

 injuring the reputation of his own labours, as 

 an anatomical writer (the only fource from 

 which he can, thus far, reafonably derive any 

 expe6iation) by placing fuch a ftrefs on very 

 trifles, and pretended difcoveries, of little or 

 no confequence if real ? 



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