249 LECTURE V. 



as far as I can perceive, without being either 

 injured or invalidated. Therefore I am dis- 

 posed to maintain it, for the same reasons 

 that I am his theory of life, because both 

 are probable, cautiously and philosophically 

 deduced, and adequate to explain all the 

 phaenomena of health, disorder, and dis- 

 ease ; which I think cannot be said of any 

 other theory relative to either of these 

 subjects. 



