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notion of the fubjefl far beyond the mere medicinal 

 application of it, including under the denomination of 

 fympathy the confent or connexion between celeftial and 

 terreftrial objects. Indeed, the term itfelf has been vari- 

 cufly applied ; as i. to the cure of wounds by the applica- 

 tion of fome medicinal falve or powder (called weapon- 

 falve or fympathetic powder) to the inftrument which 

 inflifted the wounds : 2. to the fuppofed cure of difeafes 

 by means of the magnetic effluvia ; 3. to the influence 

 beneficial or otherwife of certain plants over others grow- 

 ing within their reach ; to the poifonous efFe6l of this kind 

 attributed to aconite for inftance, and the antipathy of the 

 oak and the olive: 4. to the unknown (but fuppofed real) 

 conneftion between certain plants and artificial preparations 

 of their produce, as the fermentation of wines when the 

 vine flowers : 5. to the indireft affeftion of one part of the 

 body when another diftant part is immediately afFedlcd, 

 without any apparent direft connexion; as the ftomach and 

 the uterus : this is the modern medical dodlrine of fympa- 

 thy, and was not unknown at the period in queftion : 6. to 

 the connexion between certain remedies and particular 

 parts of the body, as cantharides and the bladder : this is 

 the dodrine of fpecifics which fo far as it is not fignatural, 

 and fafts warrant it, may be admitted : 7. to the con- 

 nection between celeftial and terreftrial fpheres and orders 

 of beings and to the mutual influence between human and 

 aftral bodies; the influence of the former over the latter 

 being the ground-work of magic according to the theofo- 

 phers ; and of the latter over the former of aftrology : 8. to 

 the influence of maternal imagination over the foetus ; a 

 fubjeft that deferves more conflderation than has hitherto 

 been given it : 9. to the communication of hyfterical and 

 hypochondriacal difeafes by their effeft on the imagination 

 of the beholder ; which appears to be frequent among the 

 cafes of fuppofed afFeflion by animal magnetifm in our 

 time ; 10. to the efFeit produced by the talents, paflions and 

 G g 4 difpofitionj 



