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must ever prevail over theory, I cannot help wishing 

 that this ancient Hindu medicine may be fully tried 

 under the inspection of our European surgeons, 

 whose minute accuracy and steady attention must 

 always give them a claim to superiority over the 

 most learned natives ; but many of our countrymen 

 have assured me, that they by no means entertain a 

 contemptuous opinion of the native medicines, espe- 

 cially in diseases of the skin. Should it be thought 

 that the mixture of sulphur must render the poison 

 less active, it may be adviseable at first to administer 

 orpiment, instead of the crystalline arsenic. 



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