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quainted with the family from which this 

 disorder, with the subsequent alarming 

 disease, was descended ; that it was one of 

 the numerous and dissimilar progeny of the 

 common parents of local diseases ; that it 

 was a short lived bantling, engendered by 

 the reciprocal and aggravating irritation of 

 disordered states of the digestive organs 

 and nervous system on each other. It 

 therefore followed that local applications 

 were of little avail in this species of mor- 

 tification, and that the removal of the 

 exciting causes were the chief means of 

 procuring a diminution and ultimate cessa- 

 tion of such effects. 



In various parts of the lectures, I en- 

 deavoured to impress a distinction between 

 disorder and disease. In disorder, the vital 

 energies of parts are impaired, or excited 

 and disturbed, as is manifested by errors 

 in their feelings and functions. Disorder 



