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PREFACE.
the memory of his children, yet his anxiety for their orphan condition suggested to him this method of continuing to them those advantages.
The Editor is encouraged to offer this Treatise to the Public, by the very favourable reception which the rest of his father's works have met with. The Comparative View of the State of Man and other Animals, and the Essay on the Office and Duties of a Physician, have been very generally read; and if he is not deceived by the par-
