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distinct diseases, that sometimes appear together, and 

 sometimes separately; hence it has no determinate 

 meaning, except it signifies simply a quick pulse, which 

 continues for some hours; in which sense it is here 

 used. 



In naming diseases I have endeavoured to avoid the 

 affectation of making new compound Greek words, 

 where others equally expressive could be procured: as 

 a short periphrasis is easier to be understood, and less 

 burdensome to the memory. 



In the Methodus Medendi, which is marked by M. M. 

 at the end of many of the species of diseases, the 

 words incitantia, sorbentia, torpentia, &c. refer to the 

 articles of the Materia Medica, explaining the opera- 

 tions of medicines. 



The remote causes of many diseases, their periods, 

 and many circumstances concerning them, are treated 

 of in the preceding volume; the descriptions of many 

 of them, which I have omitted for the sake of brevity, 

 may be seen in the Nosologia Methodica of Sauvages, 

 and in the Synopsis Nosologiae of Dr. Cullen, and in 

 the authors to which they refer. 



In this arduous undertaking the author solicits the 

 candour of the critical reader; as he cannot but fore- 

 see, that many errors will be discovered, many addi- 

 tional species will require to be inserted; and others to 

 be transplanted or erased. If he could expend ano- 

 ther forty years in the practice of medicine, he makes 

 no doubt, but that he could bring this work nearer per- 

 fection, and thence render it more worthy the atten- 

 tion of philosophers. As it is, he is induced to hope 



that some advantages will be derived from it to tlae 



