TO THE READER, vu 



fn doing this, he not only finds it neceflary 

 to afcertain minutial fadts and circum- 

 fiances, which, otherwife, he would have 

 overlooked -, but is led on, by reflexion, 

 to inferences which, otherwife, would 

 not have occurred to him : and, if he 

 regiftcr fully and faithfully, he knows no 

 more of the given fubjedr, when he has 

 finifhed his regifter, than the perfon who 

 may, afterwards, have read it. Confe- 

 quently, he not only thereby renders his 

 practice more valuable to himfelf ; but, 

 by reading his report, his minute, or his 

 cafe, the fludent gains full pofleffion 

 of the practice of a practitioner. Hence, 

 principally, a barrifter is enabled to ftep 

 into court, and a phyfician into a fick 

 room, without the afliftance of felf-prac- 

 tice. 



I will place thefe fubjedls in another 

 point of view. The attorney, the apothe- 

 cary, and the common farmer, are enabled 

 to carry on their refpedive profeflions, or 

 callings, without thofe fcientific helps* 

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