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 HUXHAM, 171 paucity of prescriptions scattered through his works, and indeed lays it down, that the physi- cian who knows a disease, cannot be at a loss respecting the form of his remedy ; an opinion in which we cannot implicitly defer to his authority. His works have always been popular in Germany and France. They were collected by Reichel, and published in three volumes octavo, at Vienna, in 1773. We believe that a new edition of them will shortly appear at Leipsic, as a portion of the Collected Latin Medical Classics, an enterprise which reflects honour on Germany — since the ex- hibition of such respect to the great observers of former times does not at all interfere with the pursuit of modern improvements, but is highly useful in tending to correct the prejudice, which flatters itself that every new case is a discovery.