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than for what intention it is defigned,-—andof what principles it confifts, rather than inwhat cafes it is ufeful, or to what parts ofthe body appropriated : and, laftly, thatno remedy fhould be concealed under a titlewhich does not belong to it. With regard tothe names we have arbitrarily given tothreea'ikaline Salts, (of which one, indeed,had been long in ufe, and the other two arebut little altered frorn their common appella-tion,) they have in truth fo much convenienceand brevity, that they may juiHy claim,at leaft, the excufe of Phyficians. It isnot, however, to be denied, that fo manynovelties muft be difagreeable to thofe whodeal in medianes; elpecially at iirft, andbefore they conceive them perfectly j butthat difguft, however great it may be, willbe got the better of eafily, ceafe of itfelf,and give place to a cuftom, more proper,more pleafant, and more ufeful.

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