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Show 22 ‘ two Authors. Parallel of 28 that [it was taught by a Professor of Medicine by the same proofs as Dr. Ploucquet employs. in the university of Tubingen, and at length, with some difficulty, I procured for perusal two The coincidence of exposition is such, that the English may often seem a diffuse translation from the Tubingen professor. Nevertheless academical tracts, entitled, one, Dias. sistens erpositionem nosologicam typlu', Thbingrt', 1800 ,the other, Diss. sistens therapiam generaliorem t‘yplzi, ibid. 1801. Both were defended under the presidency of Dr. Ploucquet, and derived, and from the following passage in his preface, " physicians neither agree among themselves being avowedly corrected by him, in order, as he says, " that it might agree more perfectly " with his nosological principles." " as to what fever is, or in what it essentially " consists; nor have they assigned to it any Compleatly to exhibit the progress of this that Dr. Clutterbuck imagines himself the first, to whom this Opinion, in its comprehension doctrine, Ishould state that Dr. Rush describes MUM Give to airy nothing A local habitation and a name; the former no doubt, from his instructions; waun from the motto of the "Enquiry," " certain and determinate seat ;" it is clear, and fulness of evidence, had occurred. A col- the brain as principally affected by congestion in yellow fever, and that even in 1793, he took one of his strongest indications from this idea. lation of passages will shew, how far this is And did I not foresee through what a laby- ment in all material respects, will be an affair rinth of quotations I am destined to lead my reader, I should likewise introduce passages of considerable curiosity, should the discussion be but indirectly instrumental in throwing from Bonetus, Lieutaud, Stoll, Tode and Dr. new light upon so obscure and important a subject. But this is not all. Such a parallel, Pew. But their sentiments have been stated either by Burserius or later writers; nor do those sentiments stand so instructively connected with decisive practice. I shall, there- fore, pass on to a very extensive "Enquiry into is really the case. To discover an entire agree~ necessarily involving a summary of the arguments in favour of the doctrine, will enable us fairly to judge of their force, under the advantage of two statements coinciding in I the seat and nature offever," which, preceded sense, but somewhat diversified in terms. by an inaugural dissertation, was published a shall give my quotations from Ploucquet tran- few weeks ago by H. Clutterbuck, M. D. and: in reality, contains the same opinion, supported slated, but annex the correSponding sentences of the original at the end. 1,-H0wever by |