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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 me- 

 thod and rational fyftem of cure. 



This being evidently clear to the meanefl 

 and mod uncultivated comprehenfion, I muft 

 beg leave to obferve hovi^ much on the contrary 

 Gibson \i2iS Juperlatively obliged us in the very 

 quinteflence of prolixity and complication; 

 for, with the reverfe of Bartlet's rf^/d?;? and 

 want of patience, he has moft elaborately gone 

 through what may be termed a complete fyfieni 

 of imagina?'y fevers ; 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 defcribes the fin?p!e and continued fever ; 

 the he^iic, putrid, and pejlilential \ bur, to prove 

 his attachment to the fubjed, animadverts 

 upon quotidians, tei'tianSy and quart ans^ en- 

 larging feparately upon each ; and concludes 

 in an inexplicable jargon upon the whole. 



As inaeed does Osmer, (who, as before ob- 



ferved, wrote in later times) in what he calls 



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