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disorder should produce local effects in the 

 nervous and muscular systems; yet they 

 cannot so well understand how it should lo-{ 

 cally affect the vascular system. To me 

 there appears nothing wonderful in such 

 events, for the local affection is primarily 

 nervous, and the vascular actions are con- 

 sequent. Yet it must indeed be granted that 

 there may be other circumstances leading 

 to the peculiarities of local diseases, with 

 which, at present, we are unacquainted. 

 Disorder excites to disease, and when im- 

 portant organs become in a degree diseased, 

 they will still perform their functions mo- 

 derately well, if disorder be relieved ; which 

 therefore ought to be the alpha and omega" 

 of medical attention. 



Such were the subjects I endeavoured 

 briefly to explain during the preceding 

 season. I have thus led j^ou to the place 

 where we stopped, and from which we are 



