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rangement of the 
difeate, and oe diting of the aici fymptoms, or thofe 
ich it uifhed from other difeafes, which re- 
ueftion, therefore, appears to be, whether it is 
advifeable to teach medicine according to a fyftem, in which 
the mec ie? fymptoms are.diftinGly laid down, or to leave 
he y a vague and unmethodical courfe of 
ane and praétice ;—a queftion which feems to anfwer it- 
felf. “We are perfuaded that the Lae fuperiority, which is 
commonly feen in practitioners of good education, is to be 
afcribed, in a confiderable degree, to the nofological method 
of ftudying the ea a of medical fcience, in which they 
had been early initiat 
To-thofe who hae not been 
I ur fymp- 
toms, which conftitute the ogical definition of pne 
monia n r. Cullen; namely, “ fever, pain in fome 
part of the cheft, difficult hg spat cough.” in 
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of the patient. yee inft yan important ey errors ae 
mind is mo effeGually fecured, when it is ftored with cor- 
where thefe are abfent, the prac- 
mere empirical affociation 
out uy ma ving their combinations, or wei hing their i im- 
port, that is, without forming any clear opinion as to the 
atual feat and nature of the difeafe. 
NOSOVSKOI, in Geography, a eape on the eaft coaft 
of NovaZembla. N. lat. 77° 15'. -E. long 64° 14/. 
N EAD, a cape on 
the county of Caithnefs. N. lat. 58° 26/, W. long. 2° 5!.— 
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accuftomed to confider this 
the eaft coaft of Scotland, i 
NOS 
rns a cape on the north coaft of Nofs ifland. N. lat. 60° 
ong. I 
‘3 Nos oss — os of the {maller Shetland iflands. N. lat. 
60° 12!, lon 
NOSSA. Senhora t Bnartagoon, a town of Portugal, ia 
Algarve, pee near cap Pavel slg on the fouth-weft s 
4 miles S. of Villa Nova a Por 
NOSSANO, a town of the pode of Lucca; 6 miles 
W. of Luc 
NOSSEN, a town of Saxony, in the circle of coe 
burg, on the Muldau; 12 miles §. Ww. of Meiffen. N. lat. 
1°13', E.long. 13° 11’. 
NOSTALGIA, in Medicine, from vootsy, to return, and 
adyos, pain or grief, is a {pecies of melancholy, the leading 
circumiftance of which is a vehement and unceafing defire to 
return home, and which of cowrfe occurs only in perfons 
who are abfent from their friends and native country. 
This affe€tion is called by the French maladie du Pays 
and ne the man-Swifs heim-weh, or home-grief. Zwin- 
» who wrote a differtation upon t sets, deno- 
vages, clais viii 
This difeafe’has been ‘obferved to be particularly frequent 
in the inhabitants of mountainous countries, which a 
ftate approaching to the paftoral condition of re a 
with which the local affociations, early impreffed on the 
mind, are ftronger than thofe excited in lefs pi€turefque 
countries. Hence the Swifs have always been remarkable 
ever, which has aes aot ener oe in “its plod 
to i who conneé& with it no particular affociation of 
idea 
The difeafe, laaat is by no means peculiar to the 
Swifs, or other mountaineers; but o occurs among a much 
dent defire to revifit oe native home,” Dr. Win 
° — “isa difeafe which affects the natives of Africa, 
as ftrongly as it does thofe of Switzerland : 
though equally certain, method, that of dirt-eating. No 
reader of fenfibility can perufe, without emotion, Haller’s 
impaflioned tegret for the calm retreat of Kafel; but even 
Haller’s glowing language appears cold and lifelefs, if com- 
pared with fs poured out by 
the poor Afri rican, when, waking from the fleep in which 
delufive fancy had wafted him back to his friends and much 
oved home, he finds only the cruel mockery of a dream.” 
Account of the native ae of Sierra ee. vol, ii. 
P- 174. 
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