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SECT. CII.

CONCLUSION.

I HAD intended to have treated on THE NATURE OF DISEASES, more particularly fuch as were related to the Pneumatic Doctrines; but fince my entering upon this work, the fubject has been fo amply difcuffed in Dr. BEDDOES's Confiderations; being Cafes and Obfervations on the Application and Production of Fac-, titious Air;-in the Rev. Mr. TowNSEND's Guide to Health; being Cautions and Directions in the Treatment of every Difeafe incident to the Human Frame, in two volumes octavo;-and in Dr. DARWIN's Zoonomia; or, the Laws of Organic Life, in two volumes quarto; that the neceffity of fuch an undertaking is fuperfeded by these truly valuable works.

Here then do I fet bounds to my design. I have prefented my readers with a variety of facts of an interesting nature, fufficient to enable them to form an idea of those pleasures which refult from the contemplation of the animal œconomy. But this contemplation would prove fruitless, did it not lead us inceffantly to seek a knowVOL. IV. 6 D

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ledge of the DEITY, whilst we survey thofe works in which HIS wisdom, goodness, and power, are displayed with fuch tranfcendant luftre. He does not impart to us the knowledge of HIMSELF directly, for that is not the plan HE has chofen; but HE has commanded the fabric of our bodies to proclaim HIS exiftence, that he may thus make HIMSELF known to us. He has endued us with faculties fufceptible of this divine language, and has raised up men whose fublime genius explores their beauties, and who become their interpreters. Imprifoned for a while in a Small obfcure planet, we only enjoy fuch a portion of light as is fuitable to our present condition; let us wifely improve each glimmering ray reflected upon us, nor lose the smallest beam: let us continually advance in this effulgent light! A time will come when we shall derive all light from the ETERNAL SOURCE OF LIGHT; and inftead of contemplating the DIVINE ARCHITECT in the work of His hands, we fhall then contemplate the work itself in the OMNIPOTENT CREATOR. "We

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MEDICAL DISQUISITIONS.

VOL. I. will contain

DISQUISITION I.

On a New Method of curing the Tic Doloureux, or painful Affection of the Face, by cutting asunder the Suborbitar Nerve, by Dr. HAIGHTON, Phyfician to the Eastern Difpenfary, and Lecturer on Phyfiology at Guy's Hospital *.

This ingenious paper was read at the London Medical Society, and has not been before published.

DISQUISITION II.

On the Reproduction of Nerves, by Dr. HAIGHTON

DISQUISITION III.

On Calculi, and their Solvents.

DISQUISITION IV.

The BRUNONIAN SYSTEM +.

This Difquifition will comprise the Lecture delivered by the late Dr. John BROWN the day before his death, to which will be added an explanation of the Brunonian Syftem, from the original MSS. of the late Dr. BROWN.

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