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N describing the diseases of bone, I shall follow that method of classification which appears to me to be the most simple, and shall take care to avoid the too frequent employment of newly invented technical terms derived from the dead or foreign languages, which, when resorted to, tend to obscure the subjects treated of.

Without farther preface, then, I proceed to lay before my readers the arrangement which it is my intention to adopt.