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1802.] Difputes between the Brunoniansand Anti-Bruncnians. 215 
has fallen into (p. 644, as above), which 
is the notion, that there is fomething, pe- 
culiarly fit and indifpenfable in the very 
nature of a certain curve, as the catenary, 
&c. to make the arch juftly balanced and 
ftrong ; an idea which, as I faid, is'a 
mere popular error, as any arch may be 
made in a due balance, and every where 
equally feciite by a proper diftribution of 
the mafonry, &c. above it. ’ E..L. 
. 
—= iii 
Por the Monthly Magazine. 
VIOLENT DISPUTES betaeen the BRU- 
NONIANS and ANTI-BRUNONIANS 7 
GERMANY. 
HE theory of the celebrated Dr. 
Brown of Edinburgh, is at prefent 
the apple of difcord amoung the phyficians 
of Germany ; and at almoft all the uni- 
’ verfities of that country the profeflors and 
ftudents of medicine are divided into two 
belligerent parties, under the appellation 
of Brunonians and Anti-brunonians. It 
were well, if their contentions were at- 
tended only with the effufion of ink ; 
but it isa lamentable fact, that a great 
number of patients have already become 
the victims of the mifapplication of 
Browniim. The defenders of the theory 
of excitability have two pugnacious 
champions at their head, Dr.J. F. Frank, 
ef Vienna, and Dr. Roichlaub, Profeffor 
of Medicineat Wurtzfburg. Both of them 
are entrufted with the fuperintendance of 
extenfive hofpitals. Thofe who are there 
killed by the Brunonian mode of treat- 
ment are filently interred, without exciting 
any attention, and the public never learns 
the number of the unfortunate foufferers. 
On the contrary, the cafes of thofe who 
happen to recover are trumpeted forth in 
the writings of the Brunonians. Dr. 
Rofchlaub is the editor of a Brunonian 
Magazine, a number of which appears 
every three months at Frankfort, and in 
which he grofsly abufes all the eminent 
phyficians of Germany, who refufle to 
adopt his favourite mode of attempting 
the cure of difeafes. Dr. Hufeland of 
Berlin, Dr. Markard of Oldenburg, Dr. 
Stieglitz of Hanover, and in general all 
the fenior phyficians are determined op- 
polers of this age ore: which, on the other 
hand, has met with moft zealous detenders 
among the junior phyficians and profef- 
fors of the univerfities. This {chifm 
among the fons of Efculapius has already 
given rile to fome laughable fcenes. In a 
farce, written by Kotzebue; entitled The 
New Century, two Brunonians appear on 
Monruty Mac. No. 92, 
; 
the ftage, to adminifter relief toa patient, 
who is fuppofed to have been feized with 
an apopleétic-fit; but they ftand difput= 
ing with one- another i in their jargon about 
fthenic and afthenic remedies, till the fick 
man fuddenly recovers the ufe of his 
limbs, and {kips away from them. ‘When 
this piece was reprefented at Vienna, "the. 
young Branonian phyiicians and ftudents 
were fo provoked by the ridicule aimed at 
them, that it was neceffary to call in the 
aid of the military to prevent ‘their rage 
from burtting forth into a&ts of violence. | 
At the beginning of the prefent-year,'the 
ground being covered by a deep: fall of 
{now, feftive mafquerades on fledges: were 
exhibited in many places. At Rasifoon, 
the feat of the imperial diet, the ftudents 
amufed themfelves with ridiculing? the 
Brunonian method of cure, by drefing 
old market-women and poiffardes in an 
appropriate characteriftic manner, and driv 
ing them about on fledges. But the: uni- 
verfity of Gottingen, which, on count 
of its excelient infitutions and) celebrat+ 
ed teachers, is juftly called the Queen of 
German Univerfities, furnifhed «the moft 
terribleexample, how far even Here: the 
{pirit of party may embitter the’minds of 
thofe who inlif tinder: her’ banners.) Drs 
Cappel, a junior profeffor of! medicine, 
who, by his animated mode of delivering 
his lectures, had gained a great number 
of hearers and partizans.among the ftu- 
dents, and who, from feveral publications, 
is known to be a'moft zealous defender of 
the Brunonian fyftem, had given ‘thé “ex. 
citing remedies of Dr. Brow ‘to“ feveral 
patients labouring under the attack of an 
epidemica! fcarlet fever... The confequence 
was, as might haye been expected, | that 
almoft all of them died. Profeffor Arne- 
mann, one of the moft learned and. expe- 
rienced phyficians of Gottingen,: ‘being 
called in to the affiftance of fome of them 
when it was too late, loudly expreffed his 
difapprobation. Cappel immediately pub- 
lifhed a violent Philippic againit Arne- 
mann. ‘The latter replied ; and the con- 
tet was carried on with great vehemence 
in anumber of memorials. . All men of 
fenfe fided with Dr. Arnemann,; but the 
ftndents declared in favour of Cappel, af- 
fembied in a riotous manner, and proceed 
ed in a body to Profeflor Arnemann’s 
houfe, where they poured forth the bit- 
tereft reproaches againft him, and-broke 
all his windows. The watthmen haftened 
to the fpot, armed with long iron rods; 
and in the fcufle that enfued; ong of tie 
fludents, a Count WWavietewiii received 
fo fevere a blow on the head that his life 
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