[60] Remarks on the Constitution of the Medical Department of the British Army.
[61] Asiatic Essays.
[63] Dr. Hunter used to teach, in his lectures, that the final cause of the want of appetite, during the first months of pregnancy, was to obviate plethora, which disposed to abortion. This plethora should have been called an inflammatory disease, in which abstinence is useful.
[64] Medical Repository, vol. vi.
[65] I have frequently been surprised, in visiting English patients, to hear them say, when I have prescribed bleeding, that their physicians in England had charged them never to be bled. This advice excluded all regard to the changes which climate, diet, new employments, and age might induce upon the system. I am disposed to believe that many lives are lost, and numerous chronic diseases created in Great-Britain, by the neglect of bleeding in fevers. My former pupil, Dr. Fisher, in a letter from the university of Edinburgh, dated in the winter of 1795, assured me, that he had cured several of his fellow-students of fevers (contrary to general prejudice) by early bleeding, in as easy and summary a way as he had been accustomed to see them cured in Philadelphia, by the use of the same remedy. Dr. Gordon, of Scotland, and several other physicians in Great-Britain, have lately revived the lancet, and applied it with great judgment and success to the cure of fevers.