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CURSORY OBSERVATIONS, 





LETTER I. 



SIR, 



THE ability and information which you have 

 displayed in your Lectures at the Royal College 

 of Surgeons, have deservedly placed you amongst 

 the brightest living ornaments of your profession. 

 To a consummate knowledge of those sciences 

 which more immediately relate to anatomical and 

 physiological inquiries, you have joined a taste 

 for general literature, and shewn a considerable 

 acquaintance with the history and progress of 

 Philosophy. 



The opinions of a man thus gifted by nature 

 and polished by education, are calculated not 

 only to command the attention of the Public, 

 but, in some degree, to influence its judgment. 

 When I consider, indeed, the nature of that 

 audience to which these lectures were addressed, 

 consisting chiefly of young men just entering on 

 life, many of whom are unfixed in their prin- 

 ciples, and of which but a very small part can 

 be supposed to have formed calm and deliberate 



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