BOTANIC PHYSICIAN. 
han cleanliness.—When a patient is suffered to lie in dirty clothes, 
_ whatever perspires from the body is again re-absorbed, or taken up 
into it, which serves to nourish the disease, and increase the danger. 
Many diseases may be cured by cleanliness alone; most of them may 
_ be mitigated by it, and in allof them it is highly necessary, both for _ 
the patient suhshoes who attend him. . 
Many other general observations might be made, were it neces 
_ sary; but I will conclude with the single remark, that a competent 
_ physician, who assumes the responsibility of the lives of men, should 
> possessed of a sound, discriminating judgment, firmness of nerve 
and purpose, independence, and above all, patience; to which should = 
be added an intimate acquaintance with the action of the human 
system, the situation of the parts, their functions, their morbid and — 
healthy appearances—regulated and governed as the whole is by . 
at principle in Nature, which is continually exerted to the preset 
- yation of the human frame, and without which, it could not exist an _ 
_ imstant. The whole duty, therefore, of a physician, is, to follow the 
: indications of Nature, and aid her efforts to throw off disease, whether 
by perspiration, eruptions, expectoration , diarrhoea, or increased ure 
_ Mary discharge, or otherwise, j 
I cannot forbear one more remark: J have never yet been able 
to discover the necessity of connecting the study of the dead lan-— 
guages with that of physic. Is not the English language sufficiently 
_ comprehensive to explain every term connected with the science! 
Why then should a student throw away years of his life in the a 
quisition of a language quite useless, and charge his memory with 2 
host of uncouth medical terms, to the exclusion, perhaps, of what _ 
_ 4s really valuable? It can only confuse and confound that which, — 
rightly understood, is simple -—or what is more dangerous, serve a3 
_ a cloak for ignorance, when the common language and common 
‘sense of the people, would detect and expose them, os 
GENERAL VIEW OF FEVERS. 
& FEVER exists when the motion of blood js preternaturally acce- — 
erated which increased motion seems to be caused by an effort of 
Nature to expel something out of the body; which ought not to be 
retained within it; but this effort becomes a primary disease, from 
the incapacity of Nature to remove it. eS 
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By Nature, is meant that active power by. whi eth esi iia 
are performed, which are entirely i power ®¥ which those fanotion 
or consent ; such, for instance, as the 
The immediate cause of fevers, is irritation, ‘ hi rae — asio! 
a spasmodic affection of the whole sorionsafinaes = a= -owit 
