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Show 232 Pocket-book. Pyrelicus. play of nature, and, as far as its authority ex- 233 tents. is ail-hindrance to improvement-One with our newspaper brethren of the quill), which so unprofitably swells out the common treatises reflection will readily occur, that it never can be improper to give separate lectures upon any on febrile disorders. physical subject. on which it is proper to write scribe, somewhat like a sliding scale upon a a separate treatise. mathematical instrument. It would receive perpetual additions and corrections, like Mr. Hoyle himself, from experience. It would purify experience so much that we should, pos~ 2. Pocket-book. J'aime a ne prendre que l'experience pour guide. Elle n' a pas encore sufl‘isamment portée son fiambeau dans ces routes ténébreuses. I wish for two works on fever, diflferent from each other and different from any which we The little work would act upon the larger, which I am going to de- sibly, at last acquire accounts of fever, unal- loyed by a single hypothetical phrase. And of these the place would be occupied by facts, that have hitherto escaped our prepossessed eyes. have-~the one much smaller-the other much m largerweach asfar as possible rigidly practical. 3. Pyrelicus. My {projected pocket-book can be kept strictly to this idea-I would have it drawn up nearly after the manner of another well-known pocket In the title pyretlcus I imitate oplzrodlslacus. But I am in no pain about titles, wishing only to procure for society a collection of far more consequence than the aplzroa'islacus, promoted by Boerhaavemnamely, a collection of original ob~ volume-J beg pardon of the profession for not being able to find a more dignified illustra‘ tiou of my idea-but I mean .417: Hoyle on the game ofw/zist. See that able performance and servers of fever. In this book I would have the various sets of That it is well to preserve and disseminate facts, every philosophical parrot will fluently But it may be imagined that the repeat. demand in medicine must have secured a ready symptoms, incident to fever-patients, concisely supply of all useful facts; and that old works stated like the various modifications of hands of cards, and the manner of proceeding in con- must be to new nearly as ore thrice picked lament that we have nothing approaching to it in medicine. to the refined metal. of all the stzgfllng (that is, I think, the term Such is the obvious supposition. What is the reality P-«Sydenham points out the misfor- with tune sequence, laid down simply and disencumbered |