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# See the author's Synods of bis course
of leaures from p. 20, to 23.
+ Pliny observes that although 7 bef
fate boafedQ^ ‘bridged the stud,
medicine; that he could teach st tn fa
month, be not^itbftanding ^rote „e
fobon that art than could be read in
that time.—See also ^bat Cultus t
u aw ^^ ^ :„"",: ^ pbj
friaut," as be called bimjelf.
X 8" Dr. , o bfo% pref. Sblhtfh
Thus Themifon 1700 years since,
boasted that he had discovered a Ihort
and easy method of attaining medical
knowledge, by reducing the causes of
all diseases to two heads ; the one
tenjion, and the other relaxation ; or irt
the language of Dr. Brown, flhenick
and afthenick. He considered every
remedy as.a tonick or relaxant. His
follower fbeffalus carried this dodrine
still farther, and by declaring that he
could abridge the study of medicine,
to fix months, he gained many papils
from among those who wished to ac
quire a fcieace without the trouble of
study, or pains of thinking.f
It must be left to the old and experi
enced physician to determine, whether
the disorders arising from those peculi
ar conditions observable in particular
persons, or in particular parts of the
body, called Idiofyncrafas can be ex
plained by that general principle
which pervades the Branonion system.
Boerbaave and Cullen were experienc
ed praditioners, but Brown never
confirmed his (peculations by much
practice. It is possible that this sad
den metedr of intelligence, which for
a while may appear to Ihoot its beams
into the regions of obfeurity, will as
suddenly withdraw its luftre, and leave
mortals again to grope their way#
; Need we be fuiprifed that our
profeffions has been accused of con
tradiftory theories and systems, as
well as difeordant maxims in practice :
Or wonder that many fuppofc it mere
ly a conjedural art ?—i Have we not
seen that opinions prevalent in one
age as truths above the reach of con
troversy. Have been confuted and re
ieded in another, and have risen again
to reception in remoter times ? Yet
the ignorance and inattention of some
physicians should not be adduced a-
The following is an Extrafl from a learn,
ed and 'very ingenious Medical
Discourse, delivered at Concord,
before the Middlesex Medical Associa
tion, lately published.
By B. WATERHOUSE, M. D.
Profeffor of the Theory and Practice of
Phyfick in the University of Cambridge,
and Pice PreJident of the Association.
r rH£ ftatc of science is very dife
I rent now from what it was 200
years since. The philosophy of Aridotle
mifunderltood, the falfe theories of Galen,
and the jargon of the Cbpmifa, formed
so thick a cloud, that truth and nature
could scarcely be seen through it. When
this was dispelled by Lo^d Bacon and
others, the era of experiment followed,
Philosophers and .phyGeians laboured to
accumulate fs^s. Societies were eve,
where established for this expres purpose.
A diffufive manner of writing crept in,
and grew up among authors. 0 It was
the fafliion to print not only all that a
man thought, but quote all that he found
any body else thought, &he was scarcely
esteemed a literary man, who published
any thing less than a folio. But now it is
wholly different. Instead of that dift'u
five manner of writing, authors feel
the necessity of consolidating and con.
Centrating science. They find that
the substance of folios may be digested
into a few pages, and the efence of
libraries comprefTed within a few vol
umes. The late Dr. John Brown
has attempted to fimplify the science
of medicine, by reducing all diseases
to two forms, namely, ftbenick and
aftbenick, the former figaifying an ex
cess, and the latter a defeat of the vis
wit#, or invigorating principle.*
From Thomas' Massachusetts SPY.
NOTES.
gainft the liability of the art itfelf.
Amid the fluctuations of theories, a
difeerning eye may difeover certain
fundamental principles which are as
firmly eftabliihed as Aofe of any
science. ; Does not daily practice
convince us, that both acute and chro
nick diseases have the fame marks an
nexed to them, which were described
zooo years ago ? Even in nervous
disorders amid all their tumultuous
anarchy of acceffary symptoms, we
recognize their effenttal marks an
elementary types.*
Phyfick, like many other ats, may
be practised without theory, or know,
ledge of its principles. A man may
know how to bleed without underiland
ing any thing,of physiology, or anato
my. He may have learnt how to ltop
that bleeding, and yet be ignorant of
circulation or the blood. And a man
may learn how to cure an acute pain
in the tide, by copious bleeding,with
out knowing there is fucn a memb
rane as tne plea.a. Many pradition
ers have known the efficacy of Tartar
Emetiik, without having chymiltry
enough to know its component parts.
And, yet, such is the weakness and,
credulity of many of our country peo
ple, that they often prefer such to a
learned physician. The fad is,theory
and practice are mutually subservient
to each other. Theory is defective
without experience ; which in in turn
is equally defective without theory.
It has been oblerved that man who
ads from experience alone, though he
act ever so well, is but an Empirick,
or Qaack, and that not only in med.
dicinc, but in every other lubjed. It
is then only, that we recognize art,
and that the Em pirick quits his name
for the more honourable one of artist,
when to his experience he adds science,
and is thence enabled to tell us, not
only ivhat is to be done, but why it is
to be donefc Nevertheless, a Phyfi.
cian does not eftablilh his character by
what he knows and thinks, so effectu
ally as by what he aaually does and or
ders for the sick.
NOTES.
* See Black's btftorical Jketcb oj Me
dicine and Surgery.
^ Harris's Hermes.
PARIS, June 14. .
MDUMOURIER, the new War
e Minister, entered on his func
tions yesterday, and commenced his
career with a very distressing part of
his duty—he read a letter from M. de
la Fayette, detailing another unfor
tunate affair, attended with the irre
parable loss of a brave and able Gene,
ral M. de Gouvion, whose death is a
public calamity he lived glorious
ly, and nqbly fell in his country's
cause.
The following is a copy of la Fay
ette's dispatches: —it may be conclude
ded that nothing decisive has taken
place, when, as usual, on comparing
it with the Austrian account, it is
found that each claims the advant
a g e: —
The Austrians have attacked our
camp with superior forces, and have
been repulfed,' for we were informed
of the projected attack. M. Gouvion
began the battle, and he was brave
ly seconded by M. M. Tracy, Nar
bonne, and Maubourg. The en
emy abandoned their ground, and
fuffered more than we we pursued
them a league beyond the field of bat
tle. We should have only to rejoice
in this affair, if unhappily it had not
deprived the country of a brave defen
der, and all good citizens of a friend
M.Gouvion. His soldiers lament hiip;
Parisian National Guards lament him ;
all good citizens lament him. A can.
non ball terminated his honorable life.
We regret also M. Crazotte. Lieu,
Col. of Cote D'Or. This is the exa&
recital of the affair, which h^s taken
place. I speak of my own personal
afflidion, Mj friends, weep for me.
Foreign Intelligence.
Extraa of a letter from Governor Ham
ilton, to a gentleman in this town,
dated Bermuda, July 2s.
" * REQUESTyou will communicate
1 to Governor Wentworth, the fol.
lowing extract of a letter, dated Bar
badoes, July 10, 1792 : " I catch up
the pen to tell you, that a London
trading thip arrived here yesterday,
which, twelve days ago, ipuxe the
Lord Campden, Eatl-Indiaman, in a
short passage from Madras. The com
mander informed, that Lord Cornwal-
M. Gouvion had been my friend for
twenty years. We 101 125 men ; the
enemy more. We have nade some
prisoners ; the enemy have made none.
(Signed) La FAYETTE, General."
The new War Minilter gives a fad
account of the army ; —40,000 men
Hill wanted —the Generals calling for
arms, for ammunition, tor camp equi
page, there is also a vacuum of 10,000
horse.—Such was the report which M.
Dumourier, in his " bonnet rouge"
made yesterday to the Assembly ; he
concluded with alking for twenty mil
lions.
Thursday morning the corpse of a
young woman was found in one of the
docks near Kensington ; an inquest fat
upon the body, their verdi& is wilful
murder by feerfons unknown : We can
not refrain from communicating such
intelligence as has come within the
range of our enquiry. Her name is Eli
zabeth Reeves, about r 7 years of age ;
handsome; apprentice to a mantua-ma
ker, and courted by a young tradesman
of the vicinity, to whom it was report
ed she was Ibortly to be espoused.
In the afternoon of Wednesday, af
ter her day's work was at an end, she
had requeued leave of her mistress to
take a walk to market, to purchase
some fruit ; for which purpose, she had
obtained liberty, and a small sum of
money, from her mistress ; who saw no
more of her until yesterday ; when as
it has been traced, a boy, being on
the fatal wharf at a very early hour,
lis, in a late general engagement
with Tippoo Saib, had completely
routed him. Seringapatam was im
mediately invelted, and, after a short
refinance turrenderea by capitulation :
Thllc Tippoo was reduced to the hum
iliating conditions of acceding to the
whole of the conqueror's terms, and,
among other Sacrifices, agreed to for
feit and fequeiter half his dominions,
and to pay, at an early period, the
sum of three millions, Iterling ; deli,
vering up his two eldest sons as hoil
ages for the performance. The ter
ritory to be partitioned among the
three invading powers.''
A few nights ago four soldiers be
longing to a company of new recruits,
which were encamped near this city,
went to an adjoining farm upon a
marauding expedition, about ten o'-
clock, and took their mulkecs for
their defence. Upon their arrival,as
they were entering a melon patch,
they were hailed by the overseer, who
ordered them to march off or he would
fire on them ; but one of them in de
fiance of his orders, began polling the
melons, upon which he was fired on,
and received a load of fmail Ihot in
his belly, which brought him to the
ground. One of his comrades finding
that he was wounded, immediately
fired his piece at the overseer, and
(hot him in the arm and shoulder ; a
friend of the latter Handing by, arm
ed with a cane only, rulhed upon the
soldiers, disarmed one of them, and
put the rest to flight, leaving their
wounded companion behind.. The
two wounded men are now under the
hands of an able surgeon, who has
pronounced them very badly wounded,
but not dangerously.
PHILADELPHIA, August 16.
RICHMOND, August 3.
HALIFAX, Angufl 11.
American Advices.
Our inelligence is as late as July 26$
which confirms the reconciliation be
tween the Whites and Mulattoes.—
The Negroes still continued in peffef
fion of the plains ; and the whites and
mulatfoes within their own lines. An
expedition againtt the negoes was talk
ed of—but pa:ilick meefores were
more desired—as it is exptfled, if the
blacks are driven Irom the plains,
they will find an informountable bar
rier in the mountains.
cbferved a man heaving fcnes 0^
fomethiog/uhich the boy igou drfco
vexed to be the dead body 01 a man
or woman he could not tell whichr
that the infant the man law the boy,
he leaped into a bateau, and pushed
off a few yards to a Ihallcp, that lay
convenient, to which be made faft the
batteau, and then boarding the thallop.
the latter put off with the tide down
the river, which was favourable to cut
design at this moment.
The body of a female, with go^
earrings, and some other marks of re.
fpedabinty, soon attracted tne notice
of the citizens ; and the ncife rearing
the ears of her miftreis and an uncle,
(for the unfortunate girl was an or.
phan)her perlon was loon ascertained.
A comb which ihe wore in her hair
was found at some paces diltant; lay
ing in contad with a man's black cra
vat, which has been supposed to be
long to ! humanity forbids cur
proceeding in this horrid recital ; ex,
cepe to mention; that some officers be
longing to the customhouse sent off a
boar, as did Several others, after the
Ihallop before mentioned.
ProfelSonal perfens of both fezes
were brought to examine the body,
and it was the opinion of the women
that the unhappy girl had been ravilha
ed, and then murdered! from the
marks of violence on her face and ei
ther parts.
Surely the earth and sea combined
could dot hide a villain of so deep a
die as he who bad committed a crime
like this—let him take refuge in the
hollows of the mountains, or in the
bottom of the deep abyss— hr must &
will be vomited up again to appeal
the iuftice of the virtuous living.
[The Governor of Pennsylvania, by
Proclamation, has offered a Reward
of Three Hundred Dollars, for detect
ing the infamous murderers.]
The account published in theCEN
TINEL some days since, of the surren
der of Seringapatam, the Capital of
the dominions of Tippo Saib,<o the
British arms under Lord Cornwal
lis, is confirmed from several quar
ters. — The terms we then mentioned
—we shall only add, that the Afatick
monarch depended every part of his
territory with the moll intrepid
firmnefs, commanding in person at
every post. That the day after the
treaty was Ggned,be delivered his two
sons, as hostages, to Lo#d Cornwal
l is.—One of whom was 11, the oihet
7 years of age— that, on this trying
occasion, his coodud was manly, and
foldierlike, although a melancholy
call was opferved in his countenance.
— That Lord C. treated his young
hostages with much kindness ; and had
presented one of them with anelegant
fuzee, and the other with a case of
piftois— and that his Lordihip, in hit
Genera, orders, had paid that tribute
of honour to the gallantry of Tippo,
which is due from one brave fcldier to
another.
In consequence of the decision of the
inhabitants of this town onmdneJda, lad,
a general inoculation for the Smail Pox
has taken place—it is supposed there are
above 8000 persons who are now under
the operation of the disease in this town,
We are told that the towns of Salem,
Charleftown, and Roxbury, have deter,
mined on a general inoculation.
B O.S TON, September 1.
FROM ST. DOMINGO.
SERINGAPATAM.
SMALL POX.