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impart to each other, is productive of a 

 state of constitution, of which, (td express 

 my notions in the briefest way I could,) I 

 said, that it proved the fruitful parent of 

 a numerous and dissimilar progeny of local 

 diseases. On this account, the disorders of 

 the digestive organs should become an es- 

 pecial object of attention, in the treatment 

 of local diseases ; for it is in vain to expect 

 that such diseases, which may be considered 

 as effects, should admit of cure, whilst the 

 causes that produced them, are left to ope- 

 rate in force sufficient for their maintenance 

 or their production in other parts of the 

 body. 



Having thus considered the nature and 

 treatment of constitutional maladies, so far 

 as the subject is applicable to the practice 

 of Surgery ; I proceeded in the next place, 

 to speak of local diseases, and first, of those 

 which often arise spontaneously, though they 



