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Thofe phyfiologifts, who for fear of 
according to the foul, the properties of 
matter have confined it to a point of the 
brain, have proved themfelves bad philo- 
fophers. It is as abfurd to fay, that the 
foul refides in one as in every part of the 
body. 
As the nerves are the only parts of the 
body which feel, all impreffions muft ne- 
ceffarily be made upon them, and their 
affedtion muft be the caufe of the changes 
tyhich happen in the regulation or govern¬ 
ment of the different fundtions of the body. 
It is upon this principle that modern phy- 
ficians, after combating and renouncing 
the errors taught in the fchools of the hu- 
moralifts, have eftablifhed the dodtrine of 
difeafes. 
The dodtrine is not novel. Phyficians 
of obfervation have for a very long time 
back obferved, that the nervous fyftem is 
firft attacked in difeafes. 
Morton 
