Remarks on Dr. Abercrombie's Suggestions on the characters and treatment of the malignant cholera / By a young physician.

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1832
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    seems to be now clearly made out, — namely, that the disease is distinctly referable to three stages.” The first paragraph is a precious specimen of our author’s best manner. We have slight and imperfect suggestions the result of communications; and though containing little new, yet the latest obser¬ vations of certain practitioners! So that his suggestions are the observations of others ! If this is not his meaning, we might be curious to learn, whether it is the suggestions, the communi¬ cations, the latest observations, or all of them, which (( may contain little that is new; ” and if they are all slight, imperfect, and nearly antiquated, how do they become worthy of being laid before the profession ? It is fortunate that he still lives to give the solution, as his works are doubtless des¬ tined to posterior utility. The second paragraph is of a diction equally select. What should we think of a mathematician who told us, that a whole is referable to its parts ? This disease, according to our nosologist, is referable to its stages. The first stage he calls premonitory, which epithet may be here very significant, though to us it is unintelligible. Premonitory of what? — of itself? this is absurd: — of the disease? then it is not a stage: — of what is to follow? this may be equally affirmed of the second stage in relation to