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stance) only ONE of my own ; that who- 

 ever is a stranger to the origin of disease, 

 jnust be consequently so to every method 

 and rational svstem of cure. 



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This being evidently clear to the meanest 

 and most uncultivated comprehension, I 

 must beo' leave to observe how much, on the 

 contrary, Gibson has surper/afive/i/ ohViged us 

 in the very quintessence of prolixity and 

 complication ; for, with the reverse of Bart- 

 let's 7^easo?yand want of patience, he has 

 most elaborately gone through what may be 

 termed a complete system of imaginary fe- 

 vers ; and regularly transferred the ol;serva- 

 tion and language of ancient authors upon 

 the diseases of the human species to the con- 

 stitution of quadrupeds. He not only te- 

 diously describes the simple and continued ie- 

 ver ; the hectic, putrid, and pestilential', but, 

 to prove his attachment to the subject, ani- 

 madverts upon quotidians y tertians, and quar^ 

 fans, enlarging separately upon each ; and 

 concludes in an inexplicable jargon upon the 

 wdiole. 



As indeed does Osmer, (who, as before 



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