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Show Pyreticus, Pyr‘etz'cus. vanity has stimulated them to exertions of a individual can supply what is often to be fou nd bastaid ingenuity, till their faculties have become too weak to burst through the hypothe- among the faithful copyists from nature .- It is a difficulty, which arises most fre- tical eobwebs, which themselves had spun..- quently from fever, and no man can see many cases of fever without feeling it, unless he be one of those that take diseases in the gross. Ifwe consider all schools as on a level in re- gard to what they have supposed, it will become "58 These men should be seen with emblems of a tarnished reputation, and stealing away from observation, but on that account the more con- spicuous; as, according to Tacitus, in the days of imperial slavery the statues of the Roman patriots were only more present. to the specta-s tors for not being borne along in funeral pro. cession. But I can dispense with all such considera~ 233 but the more interesting to inquire into what each has seen. On so impartial a survey, later speculation will miserably sink in value. But older observation will rise in higher proportion : tions. Let a professor ever so fairly give a o'eneral abstract of facts, instead of filling the so that the public, on taking its stock of real iiours with his own partial ideas of their rela- whole. tions, what can he furnish beyond a faint out~ line? Nor can this be properly filled up but from the source which I point out. The student-the young man going forth to scatter life and death-requires full and free access to the least polluted sources of knowlege. Imagesand emblems may fail to infuse into the precep~ tor due reverence of original observers: but may not the original observations themselves guard the pupil against credulity? And 15 not the oldest practitioner, from the appearance of unseen modes of disease, often in the very Situation of a raw student P In this difficulty, no oral u . - tllc instruction, no compendium, nomgenulty of 1nd1v1dual A knowledge, will find itself richer upon the Such acollection, I have imagined, would be acceptable to all of our profession, who do not find it enough to make a graceful how, a grave face, or a speech of hollow condolence~ who are anxious about the essence as well as about forms. I have supposed too that an ad. ministration in earnest about those brat/e defenders, of whom we talk so tenderly, might make it a library for ships and regiments. I have conceived that many opulent persons, if they understood the object, would find it worthy of support. Among these, country gentlemen in remote situations, who are some~ times dependent upon practitioners, not over- burthened |