AND

PHILOSOPHICAL

COMMENTARIES.

By a SOCIETY in EDINBURGH.

Dignitas vero artis medicae, nifi eventa promiffis refpondeant, etiam
oftentatione minuitur; cum verus honos illos tantum fequatur,
qui virtutem fuam et falutis publicae ftudium re et opera demon-
JOH. DAY. HAHN.

ftrarunt.

VOLUME FIFTH.

PART I.

LONDON:

Printed for J. MURRAY, No. 32. Fleet-street;

W. CREECH, C. ELLIOT, and

M. DRUMMOND, Edinburgh;

M,DCC,LXXVI!.

OF THE

MEDICAL COMMENTARIES

IS HUMBLY INSCRIBED TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

JAMES MONTGOMERY,

LORD CHIEF BARON of his MAJESTY'S Court of Exchequer in Scotland,

By his Lordship's moft obedient Servants

THE AUTHORS,

Vidimus adverfus amicos benignum, adveríus inimicos temperatum; et publica et privata sancte ac religiofe adminiftrantem; non deeffe ei et in his quae toleranda erant patientiam, et in his quae agenda prudentiam. SENECA.