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nervous functions, that all the organs 

 and parts of the body -are affected 

 as in that complicated malady a typhus 

 fever ; can we longer feel surprized 

 that disorder of the digestive organs and 

 poisonous miasmata should equally and si- 

 milarly impair and disturb the energies of 

 the nervous system, and occasion this 

 identical fever. Does not this discern- 

 ment of the causes and nature of dis- 

 eases, lead to a just appreciation of va- 

 rious remedies, and to judicious prac- 

 tice ? 



Whilst considering the constitutional 

 effects resulting from what Mr. Hunter 

 called universal sympathy. I further shewed 

 that the nervous disturbance, induced by 

 local irritation of remote parts, might pro- 

 duce effects more or less general upon the 

 nervous and muscular systems, without so 

 materially affecting the other organs of the 



