NOS 
quos vulge numerant fenfus externos, nullus alius tam ce- 
leres tam efficaces in toto encephali et nervorum aes 
quam ce per odoratum fiunt.' 
Front. p. 19. 
Nost, Fraédures of. See Fracture. 
Noss, Hemorrhage from. See cima . 
Nose, Polypi of. See Potypu 
Noss-Band, in the Manege, called i in French muferelle, is 
that part - the head-ftall of a bridle that comes over a 
horfe’s n 
Nose-Bled, in Botany. See Acut 
osE-Peak, in Geography, a ean 6 on the eaft coalt 
of the ifland of Paraguay. N. lat. 8° 56’. E. long. 118° 
No sE-Point, a cape on the eaft coaft of the ifland of 
Paraguay. N. lat. E. lon 8° 
NO A,a weiss ‘Pina of J apan, in the — between 
oco.—Alfo, a town of Japan, in the ifland 
.W. of Taifero 
M, N ogoxoxetoy, an hofpital, or infirmary, 
ifeafed. 
century. 
The orlroen a meiulene from an arrangement of this 
kind, both to earner and to the practitioner of medi- 
common w 
well obferves, ‘* may as well deny 
dicalart. For if phyficians can adtua 
tween one difeafe and another, they vertaaly can point out 
the marks of {uch di Now thefe marks are, in 
ec ers into the nofological 
era ad eee f difeafe, and which it 
is the obje& of a “rightly eet apleiogeal fyftem to 
NOS 
explain.” (See his Synopf. Nofol. Method. Prolegom. } 
It can f{carcely be hokage ssid ae - ftudy of nofolo- 
gy muft contribut imp of a 
of the phyfician, and mutt acta the prone of the in 
experienced in the acquifition of 
nother advantage, which has ten alluded to by Dr. 
Cullen, will alfo accrue from it; it will c 
the views of the practitioner more clear an 
to lead him 
e has been 
thofe pradiitioners, whofe 
n conduée without an attention to nofo- 
ogical accuracy, are too liable 
twithftanding the obvious eer acknowledged import- 
fte tem made 
I r. F. 
fi ages, a profe flor at Montpellier, abled # the 
rudiments of his, fyftem in 1732. is work, however, 
contained but an imperfeé& outline of his final claffification, 
which was not given to the world until it had been matured 
by extenfive inveftigation, much reading, and affiduous ap- 
plication, for the {pace of thirty years. It was publifhed 
in 1762, under the title of «« Nofologia Methodica, fiftens 
Morborum Claffes, Genera, et ie aaa juxta Sydenhami 
mentem, et Botanicorum ordine As this eet aie and 
ingenious fyftem has not ay been generally referred 
to, but forms, in faét, the groundwork of all the fyf- 
tems of nofology that have fubfequently appeared, we 
fhall ftate the outlines of it with as much — as 
offible. 
A oie«eh 1,4: 
human frame is liable, under ten claffes. 
orders or secugh, | compechendia g {pots, apeanity in- 
ammatory tumours, excrefcences, encyite dt mours, dif. 
placements (i varieties of » &c.), and 
plage diflocations, — sine H 
matic, or eruptive ae 3 the membranous ea 
fuch as pleurify, gaftritis, ee &c.; and the 
chymatous, or inflam oo of the fubftance of the dif. 
ferent organs, as of t e image liver, heart, kidnies, &c. 
The hae clafs med the * Spafmi,’’ or convulfive 
difeafes, which he fubdivides into four orders; the firft an 
fecond of which include the tonic or rigid fpafms, partial 
and general (fuch as locked jaw, cramp, fquinting, &c.) 5 
and the third oa fourth, the clonic or convulfive fpaims, 
partial and gene 
epilepfy, hytteria, —& affec< 
tions of the refpiration, entitled * Anhelationes,”’ and is fub- 
divided into two or be se {pafmodic affeGtions, fneezing, 
cough, hiccup, &c sey: as afthma, dyfp- 
xth clafs includes 
thofe maladies which are Guaoeiid by lofs of power, 
either of the whole body, or in particular organ, and is en- 
titled « Debiltates.”’ Of there are five orders; 
is ve 
1. “ Dyfefthefie,’’ - or ere Giueone fuch as blind- 
nefs from catara@, ofis, deafnefs, lofs of fmell, tafte, 
Beas 2. € Anapthynie,? lofs of appetites; g. * Dy/cing id 
