Additwnat Notes. ^^ 



cian are so well known, that it is unnecessary to dwell on 

 their merits. Of these, his NosologiaMethochca, h.sFnst 

 Lines of the Practice of Physic, and his Materia Medua, 

 are the most valuable.-See an eloquent and mteresting j^:^- 

 lo^hnn upon Dr. Cullen, pronounced before the College 

 of Physicians of Philadelphia, by Dr. Rush. 8vo. 1790. 



Dr. Brown, p. 261. 



Dr ToHN Brown was born in the village of Dunse, in 

 Scotland, in the year 1735. His parents were in very hum- 

 ble life ■ and through his whole career he maintained a struggle 

 with poverty. He began to teach medicine by public lectures 

 in Edinburgh, about the year 1777: he removed to London 

 in 1786 where he died in 1788, in the 53d year of his age. 

 He was' undoubtedly a man of great and original genius, and 

 of considerable acquirements, but the unformnate victim of 

 folly and intemperance. His Elementa Medicine, first pub- 

 lished by him in Latin, and afterwards translated by the author 

 into English, has been so generally read, that it is needless 

 to attempt a character of it in this place. 



Dr. 13)ARWIN. p. 271. 



Dr. Erasmus Darwin was a native of Nottinghamshire, 

 in South-Britain, where he was born, December 12, 1731. 

 He was educated at the University of Cambridge, and gra- 

 duated Bachelor of Medicine in ihat institution in 1755, and 

 soon afterwards commenced the practice of physic at Litch- 

 field where he long resided in the honourable, usetui, and 

 profi'table practice of his profession. His first great work, the 

 Botanic Gardau ^vas published in 1789; ih^ M7iomia m 

 n94-- his PhylolGoia in 1799; and his Temple of lyature a 

 short time after liis^leath, which took place on the 18th of 



April, 1802. _ . . , , 



Though die m.edical system of Dr. Darwin is entitled to 

 great praise as an effort of genius, and as an exhibition ot 

 much important truth; and though, in all his woiks,^ he ma- 

 nifests ^reat strength, and orlginaiiry of mind,^ yet his philo- 

 sophy, both physical and metaphysical, is cnargeable with 

 radical errors. The atheistical tendency of his speculat^icns 

 can scarcely be doubted ; and his crude and visionary pni/o- 



