ON CATARRH. 3I3 



a direafe, iifelf ons;lnating[ in obflruftlon ? Per- 

 haps it will be Ibund, that Brown, prone to 

 generalizing, was not equally well grounded 

 in the philofophy of exception ; and I fubmit 

 to the learned, whether the new terms he 

 coined convey any other than old and well- 

 known ideas, and whether fuch ideas are not 

 expreiTed with a far fuperior corrednefs and 

 power of difcrimination in the ufual and ef- 

 tablifhed medical phrafeology ? I defire in- 

 formation — Was John Brown any thing more 

 than an ingenious fophift, who fet up with a 

 flock of new phrafes, not a whit too precife, 

 on the ground of which he reared a new praxis, 

 equally deficient in precihon, and produ61ive 

 of the mod: temerarious and dangerous er- 

 rors ? 



At any rate, there can be no pretence of 

 Brunonian novelty in the treatment of frozen 

 limbs, by the previous wafhing them with fnow 

 and cold water ; but furely Dr. Beddoes was 

 rather off his guard, in recommending, that in 

 catarrh " the analogy of frozen limbs fliould 

 " be ftriaiy followed." Would the DoBor in - 

 this cafe advife ice-creams, againll which he 

 had already declaimed fo violently, or large 

 potations of fnow-water ? Had he fo foon 

 forgotten his own maxim (a page or two back- 

 ward) " that no perfon already chilled is fit to 

 **' encounter a more chilling medium ?" — that 



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