Practical Illustrations of Typhus Fever, of the Common Continued Fever, and of Inflammatory Diseases, &c. &c.

telligible form ; but after all, we believe that the present plan was in some degree the best. Writers of systems have been dealt with very unjustly ; no sooner have some of their leading principles been proved to be untrue, than their, perhaps otherwise, splendid publications have been consigned to the dusty shelf, although the very fact of illustrating a theory presupposes that the writer has collected together a large mass of valuable observations ; and even such might have been the fate of Dr. A's patient and most accurate investigations into the symptoms and treatment of disease. For, as system after system has fallen before the increasing precision of medical reasoning, it would be too sanguine to suppose, that the present explanations of the phenomena of fever, are to leave nothing for future discoverers to perform. It is indeed perfectly apparent, that they are defective in many points, as we shall attempt to shew ; but we feel bound to say, that the work before us, raises it's excellent author to the very highest rank of medical philosophers; conspicu-