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5. The blood, being then properly propelled throughout 

 \he whole frame, whose energies were increased by bark, 

 serpentaria, mvrrh, and afterwards steel, — every organ re- 

 sumed its proper functions, and the aberration ceased. 



3. Mr. Morton*, a gentleman whose mind rises much 

 superior to the delight of low persons, has certainly niis- 

 vinderstood the science of pneumatic medicine when he at- 

 tempted to hold it forth to ridicule oh the stage. To wipe 

 •awav, as far as mv voice reaches, the odium he would 

 attach to the practice, I shall beg leave to refer the philo- 

 sophic world to what I published ill the year 1799- — fide 

 Philosophy of Medicine, vol. i. p. 545, fourth edition. 



Dr. Brown's golden Maxim. 



*' As the most healthy state of man is occasioned not by 

 the operation of any o?ie, or of a few exciting powers, but 

 by the united operation of them ail', so neither is its re-esta- 

 blishment to be effected but by the same vnited operation 

 of all fheyetn edits, the last of which come to be the ordi- 

 nary means of the support of the healthv state." 



Upon this principle, my practice is, in all asthenic dis- 

 eases requiring more than the usual routine, to endeavour 

 for the stomach to be braced and sf lengthened by bark, 

 myrrh, steel, or zinc ; the blood improved, and hence 

 the whole vascular system, by the inhalation of vital air ; 

 the mind to be exalted with the hopes and novelty of cure; 

 a generous mode of living enforced ; and thus every energy 

 of the frame to be roused into action. But the public mind 

 has been long poi>;oncd by the doctrines of specijics ; and as 

 " what is good for everv thing is good for nothing," for 

 quuckenj advertises the saiue sptvijiis for everv disease, so 

 no credit will bj gi\eu by many to /he healino- powers of 

 the constitution, and less to those means which act on the 

 constitution, and thus on a varitty of diseases of the same 

 class: but in the issue, " truth and science will prevail:" 

 aiid as constitutions arc diflerently affected by the same 

 iDcans, hence the necessity oi disiriminution in the practi- 

 tioner, and hence our jirophecy, that the extinction of 

 (juackcry is at no great distance in an enlightened age. 

 Steering is very simple ; move the rudder ever so little to 

 the right or kft, and the ship turns in a contrary direction ; 

 put it straight, and the ship moves straight : but God has 

 so connected mankind, that even the conduct of this simple 



• The wit aimed at bv Mr. Morton, in his School iif Reform, is by 

 ihc iotioduciion of one Ur. O.wr.tNi whopives liu p-,i:tt;t, by n)isiaiit, 

 inkuad of 4 ccriifit-att of Curti, t!.c uilis of Morialiij .' 



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