TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1. P. 11, changed “at the mercy of these excutioners” to “at the mercy

of these executioners”.

2. P. 19 and subsequent, changed “womens” to “women’s”. The authors

usage was inconsistent.

3. P. 30 and subsequent, changed “it’s” to “its” where possesive was

intended. The authors usage was inconsistent.

4. P. 156, changed “may be reduce” to “may be reduced”.

5. P. 171, changed “during some lisgering labor” to “during some

lingering labor”.

6. P. 173, changed “sometimes inseparably damaged” to “sometimes

irreparably damaged”.

7. P. 175, changed “very uncautions of concealing them” to “very

uncautious of concealing them”.

8. P. 208, changed “signs of abborrence” to “signs of abhorrence”.

9. P. 216, changed “ames” to “âmes”.

10. P. 220, changed “than in those antient times” to “that in those

antient times”.

11. P. 237, changed “elevées et ecartées, les pieds rapprochés des

fesses, et maintenus en cette situation par des aides dont on soit

sur. Levret, Utilite” to “élevées et écartées, les pieds

rapprochés des fesses, et maintenus en cette situation par des

aides dont on soit sûr. Levret, Utilité”.

12. P. 237, changed “arrétoit au precepte general” to “arrêtoit au

précepte général”.

13. P. 241, changed “inaminate things” to “inanimate things”.

14. P. 246, changed “ballanced by their incompetency” to “balanced by

their incompetency”.

15. P. 250, changed “evidently consist less” to “evidently consists

less”.

16. P. 253, changed “they cry down every instrumen of other

practitioners” to “they cry down every instrument of other

practitioners”.

17. P. 347, changed “diamatrically opposite” to “diametrically

opposite”.

18. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.

19. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as

printed.

20. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together

at the end of the last chapter.

21. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.

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