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drew up some account of the disease. From this ac- 

 count, it was evident, that the fever of 1793 was, in 

 no essential respect, different from that of the former 

 period. 



Dr. Redman was so fortunate as to acquire the 

 solid friendship of a large number of his fellow-citizens, 

 among whom he officiated so long as a physician. 

 Many of these he survived; but there still remain not 

 a few who respected him for his useful talents, as an ac- 

 tive and attentive physician. 



Except his inaugural specimen, and two or three fu- 

 gitive essays, Dr. Redman published nothing relative 

 to medical subjects. He adds, then, to the large num- 

 ber of those practitioners of the healing art, who mix, 

 for years, with the sick, and who scarcely leave behind 

 them one important memorandum of what they have 

 observed, in regard to the nature of diseases, or the 

 effects, whether good or bad, of medicines. It is true, 

 that the talent for correct and highly useful observation, 

 is by means a common one, among physicians. But 

 every physician, possessed of a good understanding, has 

 it in his power to augment the mass of medical 

 facts, and thereby to extend the certainty and useful- 

 ness of the most important of all the sciences. 



