NOSOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT OE THE ANTIENTS. 
quotation which we now give obviously proves 
that even in barbarous ages it was discovered 
that art and science to be clearly treated 
required arrangement. In the author’s Synop- 
tic method, the whole of the subject is seen 
by the figure of a tree, the branches being the 
diverging lines from the trunk. The trunk 
is meant then to represent the system and 
the branches, leaves, &c. the subordinate 
divisions agreeably to the laws of similitude 
and discrepancy, 
“ According to the former metaphor or al- 
legory of the India fig-tree, there are three 
roots (or trunks) : 1, the root, place, or ground 
of the disease ; 2, that of the symptoms j and 
3, that of the manner of curing. 
't here arise from the first trunk (or root) 
two stems : that of the unchanged state of the 
body, and that of the changed or diseased 
state of the body. 
From the 2nd trunk (or root) there arise 
three stems, namely ; those of looking on, 
feeling, and asking (or of inspection of the 
tongue and urine ; of the feeling of the pulse ; 
and of asking after the circumstances of the 
disease). 
On the 3rd trunk there arise four stems : 
those of the food ; of the manner of living or 
conduct of life ; of the medicaments used ; 
and of the operations performed. Therefore, 
from the tliree trunks (or roots) their arise 
nine stems. 
The number of the boughs or branches : 
Those branching from the stem of the un- 
changed body are : disease, the seven sup- 
ports of tl>e body, and the fasces. 
On the stem denoting the changed or dis- 
eased state of the body, there are the follow- 
ing 9 boughs : cause of disease, accessory 
causes, beginning or injured parts, place, way, 
time of arising (or of the fit), fruit or conse- 
quence, causes of transition from one into ano- 
ther disease ; the reduction of all diseases to 
heat and cold. 
On the stem denoting the symptoms of 
diseases, there arise the following eight 
boughs : 2 of inspecting the tongue and urine. 
Of feeling the pulse, tliere are 3 ; wind-pulse, 
bile-pulse, and phlegm-pulse. And in asking 
after the circumstances of the disease, there 
ore 3. Altogether eight. 
On the stem denoting the manner ofctiring, 
thei'e arise the following houghs or branches : 
3 of food or meat; 3 of drink or potion ; 3 of 
the manner of living or of the conduct of life ; 
6 of physic with respect to taste and efficacy ; 
6 of tlie assuaging mixtures, with respect to 
taste and efficacy ; 3 of depurafory physic. 
There are also 3 boughs of medical (or chirur- 
gical) operations. Thus in all there are 47 
boughs or branches. 
The number ofleaves (or of leafy branches) 
issuing from the 47 boughs : 
1st.' On the top of the unchanged stem, the 
enumeration of 25 diseases. 
2nd. On the top the stem denoting the 
changed or diseased state of the body, 63 
symptoms or tokens of indisposition. 
3rd. On the top of the stem of inspection j 
(or examination of the tongue and urine), 6 
branches or leaves of inspection. ,! 
4th. On the top the stem of feelin?, three 
sorts of pulse (or three manners of beating of ; 
the pulse), ] 
5th. On the top of the stem of asking the j 
patient about the circumstances of the disease, j 
29 questions. ■ 
6th. On the top of the stem denoting the 1 
food (diet, meat, and drink or potion) of the 
patient, there are the enumeration of such, 
as : 14 in respect to wind ; 12 to bile ; and 9 
to phlegm. j 
7th. On the top of the conduct of life , 6. 
8th. On the top of the stem of piiysic nine j 
tastes and nine efficacies are enumerated, to- 
gether 18 ; 3 kinds of soup or broth ; 5 kinds 
of medical butter or siruo ; 4 kinds of potions ; 
4 kinds of powders J 2 kinds of pills ; 5 kinds 
powdered aromatics ; 9 sorts of depuratory 
application. Total=50 kinds of physic. 
9tli. On the top of pliysical (or chirurgica!) 
operations, 7 leafy branches. 
A summary exhibition of the above speci- 
fied leaves : 
1. On the trunk denoting the place and 
ground of diseases, there are l88 leaves. 
2. On that denoting the symptoms, 38. 
3. On that denoting tlie manner of curing, 
there are 98 leaves. Altogether making 224. 
There are two blossoms : health and a long 
life. 
Tliere are three fruits : moral perfection (or 
good morals), wealth, and happiness. 
These are tlie contents of the six chapters of 
the first part of tliis medical tract.” 
Part 2d. Treats of four things : namely, 
what is to be cured 1 or healed 1 With what, 
in what manner, and by whom ? The author’s 
opinions on Conception from the first part of 
the process by which primordial existence is 
established, deemed to be involved in too much 
obscurity to be discovered by the modern 
physiologist, are both curious and interesting. 
“ The origin or generation of the body. 
Cause, and accessory causes thereof. Tokens 
or signs of birtli. 
The cause of the generation of the body is 
stated to be : the father’s seed, the mother’s 
blood, and the arising of consciousness. If 
the first be predominant, tliere will be born a 
son ; if the second, a daughter ; if botli are 
equal, then a hermaphrodite. Siiould it hap- 
pen tliat the blood be formed into two masses 
then twins will be born. 
Out of the semen are formed : the bone, 
the bi'ain, and tlie skeleton of the body. Out 
of tlie mother’s blood are generated the flesh, 
blood, heart, with tlie other four vital parts, 
(lungs, liver, spleen, kidneys,) and the six ves- 
sels or veins. From tlie soul or vital princi- 
ple arises consciousness through the several 
organs. 
After the body has been thus conceived, the 
cause ofits increase is in the two veins on the 
riglit and left sides of the womb, in tlie small 
vessel containing the mother’s blood for men- 
