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Rh may be safely allowed to pursue alone the eclectic path, unfettered by any of those exclusive and domineering guides, who literally represent the blind conducting the blind. Cuilen was in the habit of repeating, "there must be a tub to amuse the whale," and the history of medicine, in every age and country, amjDly confirms his application of the adage. His doctrine, modified by Brown and Pinel, has made the tour of Europe, but few of his imitators or detractors have imitated the sagacity which he displayed in searching out the indications of cure, and the enlightened scepticism with which he examined the chaos of materia medica.

His Physiology was a little work of much merit in reference to the period of its publication; it was translated into French, German, and Latin. His First Lines of the Practice of Physic appeared in 1784. Pinel and Bosquiilon pubhshed rival translations at Paris, where the work has been re-edited so recently as 1819. It has also appeared in a German, Italian, and Latin form. His Nosology will probably survive all his other works; it is indisputably the best system which has yet appeared, and can only be appreciated by a comparison with its predecessors and its posterity. His Materia Medica, though a bulky work, was speedily transplanted to France, Germany, and Italy. He has also left a tract on the recovery of persons drowned, and seemingly dead. Dr. Thomson, of Edinburgh, has recently combined with the previously printed works of Cuilen, several valuable additions from his manuscripts. A valuable edition of the First Lines has lately appeared at Edinburgh, to which Dr. William Cullen (a