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(upon THAT circumftance) only ONE of my 

 own; that whoever is a ftranger to the origin 

 of difeafe, muft be confequently fo to every 

 method and rational fyflem of cure. 



This being evidently clear to the meanefl 

 and moft uncultivated compreheniion, I muft 

 beg leave to oblerve how much on the contrary 

 Gibson \i2isfuperlatively obliged us in the very 

 quintelTence of prolixity and complication; 

 for, with the reverfe of Bartlet's reafon and 

 want of patience, he has moft elaborately gone 

 t:hrough what may be termed a complete fyftem 

 of imaginary icvtrs', and regularly transferred 

 the obfervation and language of ancient authors 

 upon the difeafes of the human fpecies to the 

 conftitution of quadrupeds. He not only te- 

 dioufly defcribesthe7?;;;j>/^and continnedfQYtv, 

 t\\QheBicy putrid^ 2indLpefiile?ztial'y but, to prove 

 his attachment to the fubjed, animadverts 

 upon quotidians^ tertians^ and quartans^ en- 

 larging feparately upon each; and concludes 

 in an inexplicable jargon upon the whole. 



As indeed does Osmer, (who, as before 



obferved, wrote in later times) in what he calls 



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