Observations upon the new opinions of John Hunter, in his late Treatise on the venereal disease, ending with the subject of gonorrhoea, and second part of his work : to be continued / by Jessé Foot, surgeon.

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826.
Date:
1787
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    < <5 ) norrhoea is produced from partial fympa ji thy ; and that the fymptomatic fever is ai univerfal fympathy arifing from the partia •one. A hedic fever is an univerfal fympa thy with a local difeafe which the conf^ii. tution is not able to overcome. This takei place oftener and in greater degree ir •:*'ithe Lues Fenerea, than in any other form of the difeafe.'* He goes on to fubdivlde- . his fympathies, through which I fhall not fol low him : I lhall content myfelf with carrying along with me the fpirit of his theory, and], by applying it to pradice as he applies it, exa- mine how far his arguments hold, and whatt the advantages are, that may be derived frorm this new arrangement; whether the particu- lar diflin£tions which he makes be in termsi only ; whether they be evident improvementss worthy of general adoption ; or whether they/ i be not in many inftances calculated to mif* ?lead.