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THE<br />
Tranilator's Preface.<br />
BOOKS which treat upon fubjes of this curious<br />
nature, being as liable to the cenfure of the<br />
injudicious, as to the praift and admiration of the truly<br />
knowing, it may not be amifs to premile fome obferva-<br />
lions to the reader in defence of this work.<br />
The author himfelf was a man of great rIwtation,<br />
an eminent phyfician, and an excellent philologer; and<br />
had he forefeen any ill effea from a treatife of this fort,<br />
he would have hardly rifted his fame and praaice by<br />
fitffering it to be publifhed. A bop &fired him to<br />
write it, and took care to fpread it into as many hands<br />
as printing could and it was attended with the im-<br />
provements