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species. It is strange that the French critic, perhaps from motives of 

 patriotic predileftion, seems to forget here, that one of his own country- 

 men had, like Linn>eus, magnified the number of diseases which de- 

 solate mankind. 



In the opinion of Dr. William Cullen, that great professor of 

 pathology and the Materia Medica, who died at Edinburgh February 

 5, 1790, the Genera Morlorum of Linnaeus was the second systematic 

 nosology after that of De Sauvages. And the latter in a subsequent 

 edition of his work, adopted himself all the descriptions and the new 

 species of Linn us. All his celebrated successors in pathology, a 

 VoGEL, a Selle, a Haartman, a Daniel, acknowledged with 

 gratitude and impartiality the merits which Linnaeus had acquired by 

 his first efforts and knowledge in that science. 



LinnjEus fraught afterwards his system of nosology upon a more 

 detailed plan. He also gave leftures upon the various species of diseases 

 (Species Morborum*). This plan however remained a manuscript, 

 from which he di6lated to his students. The chief result of his medical 

 observations and leftures he published in 1766, under the title of 

 Clavis Medicina; Duplex^ Exterior et Interior^ Holm, twenty-nine pages 

 in oftavo. This work, small as it was, became a compendium of the 

 whole science, and an epitomical sketch of the virtues and effefts of 

 medicines. " It was like an Ilias'm Nuce," says Dean Bveck, " kit a nut 

 somewhat hard to be cracked to get at the kernel." Linn^us himself 

 confessed that he bestowed much labour upon this little produftion, 

 and that medicine would still require a man's whole life, before its 



* The following was the principle of Linn^us : Genera ex Sign'is, Species ex rausis. — Jam 

 si genera morborum probe nosti, speciem e causa determines, & nunquam falleris, ubi hoc 

 potes. Sed hoc opus, hie labor !— 



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