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PREFACE.
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experienced the blessings of renewed health at such resorts after sickness prolonged beyond hope of recovery,) and I have further ventured to throw out some hints for the consideration of Government, professional as well as extra professional, which may be found worthy of adoption.
I have indeed done my best to render this advice sound and worthy of confidence, in the hope of its being favoured with a welcome reception. Such a compilation must therefore be more or less heterogeneous, but I have endeavoured to avoid the inconveniencies of miscellaneous matter by a careful classification, and an attempt to put the right article into the right place.
J. McCOSH, M.D.
London,
1st July, 1856.