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the patient perhaps makes no complaint, 

 but which is the cause of the more evident 

 and important malady. 



V 



To me the philosophical turn of Mr. Hun- 

 ter's mind is demonstrated by his caution ; 

 with all his facts relating to sympathy, he 

 formed scarcely any general conclusions. 

 He distinguishes it into the continuous, con- 

 tiguous, and remote. The two former are 

 readily explicable. Of the latter, I, who 

 have less caution, or more facts of a 

 <;ertain description than Mr. Hunter might 

 have possessed, do not hesitate to say^ 

 that when injuries or disease of limbs 

 bring on fevers, delirium, convulsions, or 

 tetanus, or disturb the feeling and func- 

 tions of the digestive organs, that these 

 effects are produced through the medium 

 of the brain. Whether sympathies can 

 take place in a more direct or less cir- 

 cuitous manner, may be proposed as a 



