INTRODUCTION. 



ticular remedies, from the desire of giving marvellous stories, 

 from the vanity [of giving facts and observations ; in short, I 

 have often said there are more false facts than false opinions in 

 physic, and the latter are more easily avoided than the former." 



V. With a strict attention to these considerations in the whole 

 of the following treatise', I proceed to treat of particular diseases 

 in the order of my Methodical Nosology. 



u I have distributed all diseases into four classes, which we 

 title, Pyrexiae, Neuroses, Cachexiae, and Locales. From the term 

 applied to the last, you must perceive that I mean to make a 

 general division of diseases into Universal and Local, or into 

 those which affect the whole system at once, and those which af- 

 fect one part only. Here there are some difficulties, but it is 

 ^enough to give what is very general." 



