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done to render it worthy of the approbation of the profession. 

 Indeed, I may well be contented, without claiming for this 

 translation, the praise of perfection, while I daily witness 

 similar attempts, coming from higher sources, not altogether 

 exempt from errors. 



For instance, since the greater part of this version has been 

 printed, we have had in our hands the translation of the same 

 work by Dr. Knox of Edinburg, well known to the medical 

 profession as a writer and a lecturer. We opened this volume 

 by chance in many places, and we have, not without great sur- 

 prise, found some very gross errors. We will point out some 

 of them, not to gratify malice or jealousy on our part, but 

 merely to show that the faithful and correct performance of a 

 translation, is not as easy a task as some critics would make us 

 believe. Should we ourselves have fallen into errors, not- 

 withstanding all our care and attention to produce a faultless 

 translation, we wish thereby to show, that we are entitled to 

 some indulgence from our reader. 



Dr. Knox points out one single error in his erratum, and 

 we turned to the page indicated ; on reading the same para- 

 graph, we found just above the error alluded to the following 

 sentence, which we shall give with the original, and opposite to 

 our own version. This induced us to look cursorily into the 

 book, and to our great astonishment, we found such errors, in 

 point of science, as made us rather tremble for the performance 

 of the other parts of the work. We shall here quote some of 

 the principal blunders committed by Dr. Knox, for the edifica- 

 tion of our readers. 





