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Excerpt from A Review of the Improvements, Progress and State of Medicine in the Xviiith Century: Read on the First Day of the Xixth Century, Before the Medical Society of South-Carolina, in Pursuance of Their Vote, and Published at Their Request
While the great and {hiking improvements made by our predecelfors, in the healing art, are pafl'mg in review be fore us, the advantages which have refulted from their la hours, cannot fail of enkindling in our breafis a holy am bitiou to imitate their glorious example, by perfe?ing what they have left Undone. I have only to regret that your choice has fallen on one, who has neither the leifure, the knowledge, nor the books nece?'ary to fulfil your in tentions. Were my t'alents equal to the important fubjeet, great would be your entertainment, while I difiinetly brought to your recollection the means and the men, who.
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