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disease having at length assumed the propor- 

 tions of a public calamity, the several govern- 

 ments were obliged to take it into serious 

 consideration, and the medical faculties and 

 most celebrated physicians began to make it 

 the subject of their studies and reports. In 

 France, therefore, the professors of the faculty 

 of Paris and Montpellier, suspending every 

 other pursuit, devoted their most assiduous 

 care and attention to dumb animals. 



Sauvages, the Dean of the Faculty at Mont- 

 pellier, drew up a most philosophical and 

 learned account of the prevailing disease, in 

 which, like Stahl, he forgot probably for a 

 moment the part which, in the progress of 

 distempers, he ascribes to the soul. 



The professors of Paris, very famous in their 

 day, but who, having left behind them no 

 works so valuable as the "Nosologia" of 

 Sauvages, are now completely forgotten, like- 

 wise addressed the result of their inquiries 

 and lucubrations to the King. 



Doctor Leclerc was sent into Holland, 

 whence he brought back a Memorial, which 

 was a reflex of the opinions he found current 

 in Denmark, and which has been transmitted 



