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arises from other causes. I also further 

 shewed that the same local excitements 

 would produce intermittent and rheumatic 

 fevers; and occasion still more diversified 

 and unexpected disorders. 



Now, here I would ask, to whom do we 

 owe the first luminous demonstration of 

 this subject ; who, first with the eye of a 

 physiologist, surveyed the reciprocal sym- 

 pathies of the several organs of the body, 

 and shewed how the most coinplex dis- 

 orders may and do arise from simple causes ? 

 Was it not Mr. Hunter? Allow me, fur- 

 ther to enquire, does no good result, from 

 this physiological exhibition of the sub- 

 ject? Its utility might be explained by 

 numerous instances, but I shall re- 

 strict myself to one. When we see that a 

 compound fracture, in a susceptible and 

 debilitated patient, may so disorder the 



