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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    fhall therefore only point out fome of the moft remarkable paflages, where his words, inftead of conveying any inftruction, feem to have been put down for no other purpofe than to fill up the book, and confequently might have been fuperfeded by words or let¬ ters wrote down at random. In the firft paragraph, our author tells us, that Organization is “the na¬ tural arrangement of ultimate compo¬ nent parts into fibrous or vafcular ftruc- ture, animal or vegetable.” The ufe of definitions, among ordinary writers, at leaft, is to explain one thing which is obfcure, by another which is more evident, and better known ; but here, the obfcurity pervades the whole. Eve¬ ry body knows, that matter hath ulti¬ mate component parts; but we can¬ not know any thing about their ar¬ rangement, except what is learned from their appearance to our fenfes in the various modifications of natural fuh-