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The Sapids^ according to this theory, ailing pecu- 

 liarly on the cortical part, as the Olids do^immedi^ 

 ately on the jnedullary^ or nervous fyftem. In or* 

 der however to obtain a more complete idea of the 

 ertecls of each of thefe general clafies of medicines, 

 each niuft be viev/ed in its mofl fimple (late, by 

 which Sapids will appear to be rather what we call 

 Nutritives \ and Olids^ more (Iridlly fpeaking, Me^ 

 dicines. A table of of the feveral qualities of medi- 

 cines, acording to thefe two general divifions, 

 cloies the Genera Morhorum, 



In 1766, LiNTN/iLus publiflied a fmall piece, un- 

 der the title of Clavis Medici n/e dinplex^ exterior 

 et interior. Holm. 8vo. pp. 29. This fmall trad: 

 may be ccnfidered as a fyllabus of his leclures. 

 It is an enlarged view of the theory juil mentioned, 

 connecting it with general Pathology^ and the the- 

 rapeutic part of phyfic. In the latter part all 

 fimples are arranged in thirty orders^ according to 

 their lenfible qualities, agreeably to the theory ; 

 which is difplayed more at large in two papers 

 printed in the Ainomtates Academic^., under the 

 titles of Sapor es., et Odorcs Medicament or ur/i. 



It appears from feveral parts of the writings of 

 LiNN^us, that the dietetic part of phyfic had 

 been an objeCi to which he had paid much atten- 

 tion and he has explained himfelf in the follow- 

 ing manner relating to it: — In his me^ delici^^ in 

 his plura collep^ qu am quod novi alius ullus : — but, 

 whether our author's obfervations on this fub- 

 jed may hereafter be publillied, we- are yet to 



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