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1768 : A work, it is to be prefumed, now in the 

 hands of moft phyficians. 



It will eafily be imagined, that an arrangement 

 of this kind was too congenial to Linn^us to be 

 negleded by him. In fad, it appears that he 

 very early correfponded with Sauvages on this 

 fubjed, that he foon adopted it, and framed a 

 fet of inftitutes, under the title of Genera Mor- 

 30RUM, as a bafis of his ledlures in this depart- 

 ment. LiNNiEus's fcheme was firft publifhed in 

 a the/is in 1759 , but he had taught it in his 

 clafs for ten years preceding that time. In 

 1763, he publilhed it himfelf in a fmall quarto; 

 though we do not find that he ever enlarged it by 

 the addition of the /pedes, ; > 



The fymptomatic plan of arranging difeafes has 

 fince been followed by fome other profeflbrs of 

 phyfic ; Dr. Vogel of Gottingen having publifhed, 

 in 1764, his Definitiones Generum Morhorum. Dr. 

 Qullen alfo, who at this tiaie fills the p radical 

 chair at Edinburgh with fuch deferved reputation, 

 has publifhed a Synopfts nofologia methodic^^ and 

 has made it the bafis of his Firft Lines of thePra^ice 

 of Phyftc, In 1776, Dr. Sagar^ a phyfician at Ig^ 

 in Moravia^ publifhed a Syftema Morborum fym- 

 tomaticmi, 8vo. Vien, pp.. 756. His work, allow- 

 ing for fome alterations and additions, may be ac- 

 counted an ufeful abridgement of Sauvagesh : the 

 Author, all theory apart, has described the fpecies 

 under every genus^ and fubjoined the method of 

 cure. Dr. Cullen, by omitting many genera^ and 

 ^?ducing others to the rank oi fpecies only, has fo 



confiderably 



