bodies in improving Materia Medica, 555.-John Ray,

his services, 557.-Robert Boyle, his services, 558.-

Stephen Francis Geoffroy, 559-Caspar Neumann, his

labours in Materia Medica and on Alimentary Articles,

561.

Pharmacopoeias, condition of, during the first half of the eight-

eenth century, 564-568.-Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia of

1744, p. 567; 1753, 1756, p. 571; of 1774 by Cullen, 573.

British Treatises on Materia Medica previous to time of Cullen, -

by Dr Lewis, 576; by Dr Alston, 577.-Inquiry for new

Medicines during the eighteenth century, and effects on

Materia Medica, 379.

Effect of researches of Wepfer, 579.-Other labourers in the

field; Dr Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne; Browne Langrish,

582.-De Stoerck, 583.

Cullen's Treatise on Materia Medica, short account of, 586-

631.-Gluten, Dr Cullen's ideas on, 601.-Dr Prout's

arrangement of Alimentary Articles, 603.-Dr Pereira's

arrangement of Alimentary Articles, 604.-Influence of

doctrines of Cullen as to Aliments on subsequent writers,

608. Subsequent Treatises on Diet, by Dr Paris, 611;

by Dr Pereira, 612.-Cullen's Classification of Medicinal

Agents, 613-614.-Criticisms upon, 614, 615, 623-628.

-Cullen's disregard of Chemical Analysis in estimating

Effects of Medicines, 629.-Reasons for this, 630, 631.

-Peculiar merits of the Treatise on Materia Medica by

Cullen, 633.-Translations of the Treatise on Materia

Medica, 634.-Influence of Work of Cullen on subsequent

treatises; that of Schwilgué, 635; of Alibert, 636; of

Barbier, 638; on German Treatises, 639.-Dr James

Gregory's Conspectus, 640, 641.-Woodville's Medical

Botany, 642.-Dr Richard Pearson's Practical Synopsis,

644.-Dr Mason Good's opinion of the Materia Medica

of Cullen, and its position as a practical work, 646.

Dr Cullen elected in room of Peter Camper into the Academy

of Sciences at Goettingen, 650.-Proposal by Dr Cullen

to publish, as a fifth volume of the First Lines, a short

account of the Diseases of Women and Children, 650;

b

this not carried into effect.-Decay of health and strength

of Dr Cullen, 650, 652, 655.—Commenced the Course of

Lectures on Practice of Physic in October 1789.-Unable

to advance in it beyond first week of December, 657.—

Resigns the office of Professor on 30th December 1789,

658.-Addresses expressive of regret on this event, 659.

-Death on the 5th day of February one thousand seven

hundred and ninety, aged seventy-nine years eleven

months, 660.-Interred within precincts of Old Parish

Church of Kirknewton on the 10th of February 1790,

660.-Portraits and Print of Dr Cullen, 662.

-

Estimate of Character of Dr Cullen, 665.-As Physician, as

Lecturer, 666.-His fondness for agricultural pursuits,

668-670; and arboriculture, 673. His Life at Or-

miston Hill, 673.-Character of his Intellect, 675.-His

peculiar services, 678-680.-Contemporary persons and

their influence, 679.-Caution and reserve of Cullen in

making changes, 680.

-

The Children of Dr Cullen shortly noticed, 681. — Robert

Cullen, or Lord Cullen of the Court of Session, 682.-

His Literary Contributions to Mirror and Lounger, 685.

-Archibald Cullen and his Family, 682.-Other Sons of

Dr Cullen, 684.-Daughters of Dr Cullen, 684.

Catalogue of the Published Writings of Dr Cullen, 687.

APPENDIX TO SECOND VOLUME.

Note A. Testimony of Dr Walker to Dr Cullen's knowledge of

Systematic Mineralogy,

Page 693

694

Note B. Letter from Dr Dobson to Dr Cullen, introducing Mr

Bostock, Father of the late Dr John Bostock,

Note D. Remonstrance against separating, by legislative enact-

ments, the Practice of Physic from that of Surgery, Mid-

wifery, &c., signed by Dr Cullen and other Members of

the College of Physicians,

695

Note E. Showing that the Notes by Bosquillon, in his

Translation of the First Lines, were erroneously sup-

posed to be written by that author, while they were

derived from the Lectures of Dr Cullen,

Page 698

698

Note F. On Certain Opinions of Vacca and Testa,

Note H. By Dr William Thomson, showing that Dr

Thomson had changed considerably the opinions

which he once held on the contingent or acquired

contagious nature of Yellow Fever,

Note I. Letter of Dr Robert Jackson to Dr Cullen, on the

supposed Connection between the Moon's Periods and

the time of Invasion and Relapse of Fevers,

Note I. (bis). Letter of Dr Francis Hutcheson to Dr Cul-

len, on Miliary Fever, the Contagion of Fever, Dia-

betes and its Treatment,

699

699

703

Note K. Letter from Dr Farquharson of Dundee to Dr

Cullen on the Leaping Ague or Choreiform Disease

of Forfarshire,

706

Effusion given by Dr Cullen,

709

Note L. Analytical Table of the Causes of Dropsical

Note M. On Certain Statements regarding the relations

between Dr Cullen and Dr John Brown,

Note N and Note O. Withdrawn.

. 710

Note P. Reference to Reasonings of Tommasini on the
Inflammatory Nature of Yellow Fever of Leghorn in
1804, .

719

Note Q. Works containing Exposition of the Doctrines of

M. Broussais, .

719

Note R. Works requisite to be studied in order to obtain

just ideas of the New Italian Medical Doctrine, and

the evidence by which that doctrine is supported or

contradicted,

720

Note S. On the Opinions and Doctrines of Tommasini,

and showing that the New Italian Medical Doctrine

is not original, but has been long known,

Note T. Letter from the Reverend Dr John Walker, an-

nouncing his intention to be a Candidate for the office

of Professor of Natural History in the University of

722

Edinburgh, and Annotation giving the date of the

Death of the previous Professor, Dr Robert Ram-

Page 729

say,

Note U. Letter from Dr Cullen to the Honourable Henry

Dundas, afterwards Lord Melville, soliciting his in-

terest in favour of Dr Henry Cullen for the Pro-

fessorship of Botany, with Answer from Mr Dun-

das,

Note W. On the terms on which Dr James Douglas and

Mr Cheselden the Surgeon lived; Rectification of

mistake arising from confounding Dr James Douglas

with Mr John Douglas the Surgeon, .

732

734

Notice of Services of Dr James Douglas to Anatomical

Science,

737

Note X. Letter from Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, Ba-

739

ronet, to Dr Craigie, regarding the Anatomical

School in Great Windmill Street,

Note Y. On the Past and Present State of Ormiston Hill, 742

Note Z. Two Letters by Dr Cullen; one to his Son Wil-

liam Cullen, in India; the other to Dr John Fleming

of Calcutta,

745

749

Page 30, line 20, insert " a before "singular.”

35, line 12, for "It it," read "It is."

69, line 12, for " Dialeses," read "Dialyses."

104, line 4, for "was," read "were."

134, last line, insert "s."

175, line 14, for "defintion," read "definition."

210, line 26, for "Ambrosioni," read "Ambrosiani."

227, line 30, for "of health and of disease," read "both in health and

in disease."

316, line 3, for "cessation from," read "cessation of."

342, line 11, for "hemphlegia," read "hemiplegia."

352, last line, for "reputation, read "refutation."

482, line 6, an "f" has dropped out at the beginning of the line.

LIFE

OF

WILLIAM CULLEN, M.D.

IN consequence of the arrangement with Dr Gregory which has been mentioned in the preceding volume of this narrative (p. 161), Dr Cullen delivered the course of lectures on the Practice of Physic, in the University of Edinburgh, during the winter-session of 1769-70. Previously to the commencement of that course, he published, in the Latin language, a Synopsis of Methodical Nosology, as a guide for those who were to attend his lectures; thinking it, as he has himself remarked in the preface to the second edition of his Nosology, to be his first duty, in teaching the Practice of Physic, to instruct students of medicine as carefully as he could in the accurate diagnosis of diseases.

Nosology, regarded as a distinct department of medical science, calculated to facilitate diagnosis, was considered by Dr Cu!!en, as it had been by some of his predecessors in that line of investigation, to embrace three separate objects of consideration,-1st, The dis

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