. First lines of the practice of physic (Volume 3). Of Q?acA acnecciej. MDXCIX. ry pyftate. NDER this title I propofe toeftablifh a clafs of difeafes,which confift in a depravedftate of the whole, or of a con-fiderable part, of the habit ofthe body, without any prima-a. or neurons combined with that The term Cachexy has been employed byLinnaeus and Vogel, as it had been formerlyby other authors, for the name of a particulardifeafe : But the difeafe to which thefe au-thors 222 PRACTICE, Sec thors have affixed it, comes more properlyunder another appellation ; and the term ofCachexy is mor
. First lines of the practice of physic (Volume 3). Of Q?acA acnecciej. MDXCIX. ry pyftate. NDER this title I propofe toeftablifh a clafs of difeafes,which confift in a depravedftate of the whole, or of a con-fiderable part, of the habit ofthe body, without any prima-a. or neurons combined with that The term Cachexy has been employed byLinnaeus and Vogel, as it had been formerlyby other authors, for the name of a particulardifeafe : But the difeafe to which thefe au-thors 222 PRACTICE, Sec thors have affixed it, comes more properlyunder another appellation ; and the term ofCachexy is more properly employed by Sal-vages and Sagar lor the name of a clafs. Inthis I have followed the laft mentioned no-fologiils, though I find it difficult to givefuch a character of the clafs as will clearlyapply to all the fpecics I have comprehendedunder it. This difficulty would be flill great-er, if, in the clafs I have eftablifhed underthe title of Cachexies, I were to comprehendall the difeafes that thofe other nofologiftshave done ; but I am willing to be thoughtdeficient rather than very incorrect. Thofedifficulties, however, which ftill remain inmethodical nofology, mull not affect us muchin a treatife of practice. If I can here prop-erly diftinguiih and defcribe the feveral fpe-cies that tru
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