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difeafes, that fometimes appear together, and fometimes 

 feparately ; hence it has no determinate meaning, except 

 it fignifies fimply a quick pulfe, which continues for 

 fome hours j in which fenfe it is here ufed. 



In naming difeafes I have endeavoured to avoid the 

 affectation of making new compound Greek words, 

 where others equally expreffive could be procured : as 

 a mort periphrafis is eafier to be underftood, and lefs 

 burdenfome to the memory. 



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

 at the end of many of the fpecies of difeafes, the 

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

 articles of the Materia Medica, explaining the operations 

 of medicines. 



The remote caufes of many difeafes, their periods, 

 and many circumitances concerning them, are treated 

 of in the preceding volume ; the defcriptions of many 

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

 may be feen in the Nofologia Methodica of Sauvages, 

 and in the Synopfis Nofologiae of Dr. Cullen, and in the 

 authors to which they refer. 



In this arduous undertaking the author folicits the 

 candour of the critical reader ; as he cannot but forefec, 

 that many errors will be difcovered, many additional fpe- 

 cies will require to be inferted ; and others to be tranf- 

 planted or erafed. If he could expend another forty 

 years in the practice of medicine, he makes no doubt, but 



that 



