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coniiderably abridged the whole, as not to have 

 retained more than half the number of genera^ 

 ^at the foregoing writers enumerate ; and in this 

 form he has publiflied it, anne^ced to thofe of the 

 four abovementiond, by which difplay of each, 

 their feveral merits may be compared, and a judg- 

 ment formed of the praitlicability, and ufe of the 

 fcheme in general, which, it muft be confefied, af- 

 fords a very ample Held for cultivation ; yet, from 

 that reform which Dr. Cullen has already made in 

 various parts, it is not, perhaps, too much to 

 hope, that it is capable of receiving a much higher 

 degree of improvement, in the hands of thofe 

 whofe genius and induftry may prompt them to 

 extend the defign of thefe writers. 



Of LiNN^us's method we are led by our plan 

 to exhibit a general view ; to which end, although 

 our prefcribed brevity will not admit of giving his 

 definitions at length, yet it will be neceflary to 

 enumerate the names of all his genera^ fince no- 

 thin?; fliort of a view of the whole colleftively, 

 could enable the reader to form a jufl: idea of the 

 author's fcheme. Under each clafs we (hall ob- 

 ferve wherein Linn^us differs materially from 

 Sauvages^ and note the alterations which Dr. Cullen 

 has made in the difpofition of the hme genera^ 



LiNN^us, in the claflification of difeafes, has 

 pretty nearly retained the arrangement of M. Sau- 

 vageSy although he has altered his terms, and con- 

 flituted one more clafs, with which he begins his 

 method ; the ExanthematiCy or eruptive fevers, 

 which, in the fyftems of Sauvages and Dr. Cullen^ 



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