A review of Mr. Aitken's "Outlines of the theory and cure of fever, on plain and rational principles." With a poetical address to nonsense ... / [Anon].

  • Tytler, James, 1745-1804.
Date:
1789]
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Credit: A review of Mr. Aitken's "Outlines of the theory and cure of fever, on plain and rational principles." With a poetical address to nonsense ... / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *5 ) mate caufe of itfelf. In this manner are we led in a circle throughout the whole book, without one (ingle cohe¬ rent, or rational conclufion from be¬ ginning to end. It is painful, however, to dwell on the blunders of an author in mere lan¬ guage. Mr Aitken hath claimed the right of inventing a dialedt of his own; and of this right he hath made ample ufe. Yet, notwithstanding any whimfical peculiarity of this kind, he would be excufeable, if there was a poflibility of decyphering his new lan¬ guage in fuch a manner, as to make any kind of meaning out of it, when put into the words of other mortals. But, by no art have I yet been able to make his book confident with com¬ mon fenfe. In the prefent inftance, his words certainly have no meaning'. He hath not defined the outlandifh phrafe Derangement, with which we are (tunned on all occafions; nor