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Excerpt from An Inaugural Dissertation on the Supposed Power of the Uterus
Perhaps nothing has so much checked improvement in Medical Science, as the toleration of that indolence and pliability of mind which subjects our mental Ope rations, like our apparel, to the controul of fashion the medical world has been successively modelled by an Hippocrates, a Stall, a Boerhaave, a Hoffman, a Brown, a Cullen, 8k}.
It is clear, upon the Whole, that Medicine has been gradually receiving some improvement; it is equally clear that it is susceptible of further improvement.
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