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lungs and placenta. XXXIX. Of generation. XL. Of 

 ocular spectra." 



The second is called Part IT., '^ containing a Catalogue of 

 Diseases distrilKiLcd into natural classes, according to their 

 proxiujate causes, with their subsequent orders, genera, an4 

 species, and with their metr-ods of cure." 



His niotto is extremely modest : 



" Hate, ut potero, explicabo; ncc tamen, quasi Pytliius Apollo, certa ut 

 JHnt et fixa, quae dixero ; sod ut IlQmunculus unus e mul:is probabiliora coii- 

 jectura sequcns. Cic. Tusc. Disp. 1. 1. 9." 



But having finished his work, he devotes an entire page to 



exultation, which he makes thus : 



^' Lines, to lie placed at the endofZoonomia. Bija Friend. 



" J.^MOSE OPU-S EXEGI. Ill>r. 



" The work is dont; ! — Nor Folly's active rage» 

 Nor Envy's self, thall blot the golden page ; 

 Time shall admire, his mellowing touch emi,;loy, 

 And mend the Immorifil tablet, not destroy." 



Taking the word Disease in the usual acceptation of the 

 word, nothing can astonish so much as our finding among the 

 catalogue of Diseases, " Class I. Genus 3, Species 1 3, Cica- 

 TKix VULNKRUM, — Healing of viounds. Class I. Order 3, Ge- 

 BUS 1, Species 1, Ruminatio, — Chewing the chud. Class II. 

 Genus 7, Species 7, Rubor a caloke, — Blush from heat. 

 Same class, order, and genus, species 10, Distentio mamu- 

 larum, — Distention of the nipples. Class III. Genus 2, 

 Species 7, Ira, — Anger. Species 24, Sympatiiia, — Pity. 

 Class III. Order 2, Genus 1, Species 12, Somnus, — Sleep. 

 Class IV. Genus 4, Vita ovi, — Life of an egg." 



However these may excite a smile, this is more owing to 

 deficiency of language, and a want of acquaintance with the 

 sublime notions of the author, than arising from the things 

 themselves : for the ingenious fabricator of this new system 

 of Nosology has before acquainted the reader that his work 

 treats of " mollvn ; for that the whole of nature is composed 

 of two parts, one of which might be termed spirit, and the 

 other matter. These motions have formed the objects of 

 natural philosophy and chemistry ; and the motions depcn- 

 «!cnt upon life, medicine." 



Had 



