My gentle reader--start not at learning that I have been, in my time, a
resurrectionist! Let not this appalling word, this humiliating
confession, conjure up in your fancy a throng of vampire-like images and
associatiors, or earn your "Physician's" dismissal from your hearts and
hearths. It is your own groundless fears, my fair trembler!--your own
superstitious prejudices--that have driven me, and will drive many
others of my brethern, to such dreadful doings as those hereafter
detailed. Come, come--let us have one word of reason between us on the
abstract question--and then for my tale. You expect us to cure you of
disease, and yet deny us the only means of learning _how_! You would
have us bring you the ore of skill and experience, yet forbid us to
break the soil or sink a shaft! Is this fair, _fair_ reader? Is this
reasonable?
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