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vi To modify and embody the interesting Truths drawn from these Sources, without trespassing an the Provinces of the Professors, but with enlivening Influence on their Exertions, would prove a pleasant Exercise in the Hours of Abstraction from professional Toil.

These Sentiments would have guided the Author in the |Adoption of Subjects for the late Occasion; had he not been seriously impressed with the Propriety of making an Effort, or at least of recording his Protest, against Practices, daily increasing, which, while they dishonour Surgery, retard the Progress of Improvement, and the Diffusion of chirurgical Knowledge for the general Benefit of the Community.


 * 1 May, 1823.

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