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ries, digested into a certain number of classes or collections, with
proper references to the particular parts of this treatise; so that the
reader, when he wants to see the illustration, may turn over to it at
his leisure, according to the directions that shall be laid down.
Those classes
will consist of the most useful cases and observations, partly culled
from the most approved authors, but chiefly collected from my own practice,
and that of my correspondents and former pupils, by whom I have been consulted.
Nor will the reader,
I hope, imagine, that such a fund will be insufficient for the purpose;
or that this treatise is cooked up in a hurry, when I inform him, that above
six years ago I began to commit my lectures to paper, for publication: and
from that period, have from time to time altered, amended, and digested
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