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fuade or make many profelytes to his opi¬ 
nions. I will, notwithstanding, dare to 
prefent a few considerations on this head, 
and recommend it to thofe who poffefs re¬ 
putation, genius, and a fund of informa¬ 
tion, to give to the public a detailed and 
finifhed feries of others. A work of this 
kind would be particularly ufeful, and 
give the laft blow to the pernicious fed: of 
humoralifts. 
Difeafes in their commencement have 
not any proper and diftinguifhing fymp- 
tom, but almoft all of them exhibit a 
fimilar appearance, whence it happens that 
a phyfician is not always able to judge of 
their character on their firft attack. 
Certain impreffions made upon the 
nerves of different organs, and by differ- 
ent caufes are frequently followed; by the 
fame effedls. 
The powers of the patient are commonly 
much weakened from the firft attack, but 
fome- 
