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modes of treatment, and that the practitioners 

 have been too easily satisfied with a collection 

 of facts, without embracing the catalogue of 

 diseases as a system, proposes in his course to 

 examine the theory and principles of diseases in 

 a regular series. His doctrines are drawn from 

 personal observations made in the course of an 

 indefatigable life, with the constancy of a most 

 adventurous mind. His ideas, his mode of rea- 

 soning, as well as his arrangement of diseases 

 are new ; and he therefore has received little 

 aid from books or from other professors. The 

 novelty of his ideas occasion also the appli- 

 cation of new terms ; and those which he has 

 given, he may consider as clear and explana- 

 tory, since they are adopted by others, and 

 brought into use. 



The Course begins with the Physiology, or 

 natural History of the Animal ; but so far only 

 as is necessary to the understanding the prin- 

 ciples of diseases ; in which new ideas and new 

 arrangements of the subject are introduced. 



The Physiology of Diseases follows — the ac- 

 tion of medicines — and brings him to the con- 

 sideration of diseases in general. 



The Diseases of accident being the most ob- 

 vious and simple, in preventing the natural 



