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Show -' gay/rm awasefigaam‘atwtaaew , ‘ mmfiaxwaawmwaamfi 51mg PREFACE. :31 H E Defign of the following Sheets is to fur» U m" nifh young Students in Phyfic and Surgery with proper Materials to inform their Judg» . ment, and regulate their Practice. For which on, almof't every Subjeét has been introduced that will contribute to this valuable Purpofe ; feveral of which will appear entirely new to an Englzflt Reader, becaufe they have never been treated of in our own Language, in the fame Manner, before. ‘ In the infiitutional Part of Medicine I have confulted various Authors; but I did not receive fuch Affil'tance from many as I might reafonably have expeéted. Boer- imam is very difl'ufe in Phyfiology, and palies over the ref't in too curfory a Manner. Haller, a very ingenious and accurate Writer, has confined himfelf entirely to this Subjeft, and Sta/91, together with his Followers, have ad; vanced fo many fingular Notions, that I had neither Inclination to obtrude them upon the World, nor Room to {how their Fallacy. I am chiefly obliged to the celebrated Haj". man, who is, without Controverfy, the mof't flsilful and the molt learned of all foreign Pliylicians. He did not begin to write fyf'tematically till forty Years Experience had in- formed his Underf'tanding, and fettled his Judgment. The Study of Phyfic is not f0 eafy a Matter as many Medicafiers would make us believe; for it not only requires a Skill in the learned Languages, but a competent Knowledge in natural Philofophy, and fume Parts of the Mathematics, |