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VII. An Account of BOOKS. 
II TPETOAOrlA: Sen Exercit at tones de Mar- 
bis Uniweffali'ms A cutis Anthore Richard®- 
Morton Me A I h Regit Collegii Medic* Lond* 
Socio &> Cenfore. Lond 9 in 8°- 169,2. 
THE Do&or knowing well, that Indications in the 
Cure of Difeafes cannot but be uncertain, if they 
are not founded upon an accurate Knowledge of their 
true Caufe, which (at leaft in the univerlal Difeafes) 
cannot be clearly difceroed, unlefs the Origination, Si- 
tuation, Stru&ure and mutual Connexion of the Parts 
affeded be alfo underftood, fhews in his Preliminary 
Difcourfe, that the Brain is the part which is firfl: form- 
ed in the whole Body ; then gives an account of its Sub- 
fiance, and how all the parrs, whether Membranes, 
Mufcles, VefTels, Vifeera, Tendons, Cartilages or Bones 
are derived from it, and are Continuations of it, and are 
actuated and enabled to perform all their lev feral Fun- 
ctions by Animal Spirits which they receive from 
thence^ From whence he is induc'd to believe, that not 
only Cephalick Difeafes, but all univerfal Diftempers 
Acute or Chronic, are primarily occafion'd by thefe 
Animal . Spirits when they are diforder'd, and their 
©economy perverted by an extraneous and diiagreeable 
Ferment, by which the Blood and the reft of the Hu- 
mours are afterwards corrupted ; and that therefore in 
the Cure of Univerfal Difeafes, the principal Indications 
ought to be taken from the Di&rders.pf the Spirits, and 
not* 
