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cipaliy affect the head, having their seat in 

 the brain or vessels leading thereto. In this 

 description are included those that have been 

 formerly distinguished under separate heads, 

 as Apoplexy, ConVu4sions, Epilepsy, Stag- 

 Evil, Palsy, &c. but as such investigations 

 (founded as they must be mostly upon con- 

 jecture) will evidently extend the thread of 

 information to an indeterminate degree of 

 refinement, I shall decline entering into the 

 explanatory parts, so minutely and tediously 

 defined upon former occasions, reciting only 

 the general system upon which the cause is 

 founded^ and then proceed to quote from 

 other circumstances that may justify the 

 bringing such a variety of disorders into ^ 

 jingle point of view. 



How far the pretended accuracy of formerly 

 distinguishing one of these diseases from 

 another may be reconciled to modern com- 

 prehension, or generally credited, I know 

 not; but confess, where the whole formation 

 of judgment and decision is to rest upon the 

 penetration of the observer only, and no in- 

 formation come from the patient, circumr 

 stances could or can but very seldom conar 

 l^ine to form so singular a distinction. Exr ., 



