Junrney fo the Frozen Sca^ &c. 141 



Mad Dr. Darwin iisecl the word action instead of diseases^ 

 he would not have so greatly surprised the world by hi* 

 wonderful catalo2;ue, as he terms his diseases : nor would the 

 splitting all the stjmptojns, and constituting out of these so 

 many diseases, now appearing all novelties, have so grt-atly 

 offended at the onset, the medical reader brought up in tlte 

 old school. Br.owN, Darwin, and Thorntok, have 

 each formed a Jiew system of nosology. Upon the whole, 

 we cannot approve of the old plan of artificial arrangement, 

 not quite that invented by Linuceus, Vogel, Sauvage, Cullen, 

 &:c., nor even that of Dr. Bhown, who divides his diseases 

 into Sthenic and Asthenic, for the facility of comprehension 

 and cure, nor even that of j)r. Dasiwin, but that invented 

 by Dr. Thornton'', who begins with diseases of the head, 

 and so descends to other pans, dividing these into sthenic 

 and a.^-.thenic, and reserving a separate class for contagious 

 diseases, and fevers, or general atfections. 



[To be continued.] 



XXIII. Some Account of a Jtatrney to ike Frozen Sea, and 

 of the Discovery of the Remains of a Mamrnotli. Jhj 

 M. Michael Aoams, of St. Pelershurgh. Translated. 

 from the French f. 



J. SHOULD have reason to reproach myself were I to delay any 

 h)nger the publication of a diccovery in Zoology, which is 

 so much the more interesting to be detailed, as it once more 

 presents to our view a species of animal, the existence of 

 which has been a subject of dispute among the njosl cele- 

 brated naturalists. 



I was informed at Jakoutsk by M. Popoff, who is at the 

 head of the company of merchants of that town, that they 

 hid discovered upon the shores of the Frozen Sea, near the 

 mouth of the river Lena, an animal of an extraordmary size: 

 the flesh, skin aiul huir were in good preservation, and it was 



• Tim Siisti m may be seen in hii " I'liilosjphy of Medii;iae," fourth cd"- 

 tion, five volumes, a work wliitli deserves a place iii every libra;y. 



f For this conimutiicatioii wc are indebted to the Right Hon. Sir Joieph 

 BanWi, Bkrt. P. R. S. itc. Air. 



supposed 



