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talented and distinguished men have pro- nonnced it a system of quackerys apd when their patients have asked ifthey had the scarlet fever, they have been in the habit of answering, you ssmay call 1t scarsats or black or white, just which you choose;" and have | the rheumatism or the goutl is followed by, 1" both, or either ss you plesss caIIit; you have pain m the ioo.' ana when you have followed my Prescripsloh

 yon will have it no longer, Nc.

 Now the argument offered by these gen. tlemen. when they condescend to give req sons is that there is such an in6nity of forms to disease. and one runs so into another, that it is impossible to draw lines, and we must therefore take the symptoms as we find them, and do our bestto restore health. Now this is all true; but the same is true of all branches of science. Even men diff fer from each other like diseases. We can trace resemblance in the heads and intellect of some Europeans and some Afri- cans, and many Africans differ but little in either from some apes and ourang- outangs. Yet we can see gradual decline in the frog it is no reason why men should not be di- yided into different races, and each race be distinguished by its appropriate name.

 There are many cases in which practi- tioners give wrong name to a disease, from misapprehension of the nature of the complaint, or because, not being able to class the symptoms at all they save them selves some trouble by giving the name

 most at hand; and it is such cases we ap- prehend, which have induced many high and gifted minds to be disgusted with the plan of giving name to every set ofsymp- toms we meet with. Butdoes not this sa- ,vor little of pettishness! There are cases again, in which the strange combination of symptoms, real and imaginary, defy the greatest skill at classification, and yet the patient will not be satisfied without the name of his disorder; and many friend will persuade the invalid that his doctor does not understand his case, if some name--no mater whether right oriwrong, whether they understand it or have never heard oft before or not-be not readily given to it. In profession, therefore, success in which is so dependent on whim and caprice as ours, the evils alluded to must exist, and ought not to bring into the shadesthe obvious advantages of correct and practical nosology.--lMed Iat. s4