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I have given my reason for the dissent; and I trust that I have, in no instance, gone beyond that candid criticism, which it is necessary to exercise on all scientific topics.

I beg to repeat the request with which I conclude the preface to my former volume, that my readers will use towards me the same liberty which I have used towards others; that they will, without reserve, point out all the errors and imperfections which may be found in the work. I have thought it, upon the whole, more advisable to defer the notice of these remarks until the publication of my third and concluding volume; as by this means I shall have the advantage of another year's experience, an advantage which is of no small moment in a science so rapidly progressive as that of Physiology.

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