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mediane feems not now to be averfe to themas to inveterate enemies, but to havebrought them over to its party, and to makeufe of them as allies and auxiliaries. Afevv of thefe (which we have ourfelves tried)we have enrolledin ourlift, ready to adoptothers, if faithful experiment, made in theeure of difeafes, fhali demonftrate theirefficaey.—It would be too rafh to adopt asknown what has notbeen, as yet, fufficientiyexplored.

The great number of things to which wehave given names, before unknown, andlately formed, may perhaps give to fome anopportunity of finding fault j fince there isfearcely any one who does not more willing-ly ufe names to which he has been aceuf-tomed than new ones. But the defign ofthefe changes is, firft, that fome vain andunmeaning words, derived from the falla-cies of the old chemifts, or othenvife, fliouldfall into difufe, (as much as pofiible) andinto oblivion : 2dly, that each compofition/hould by its title rather fhew what it is,

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