Transactions of Societies, &c.
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It is, no do.ubt, wisely ordered by Providence, that Societies can never act collectively with the multiplied energies and talents of the individuals composing them. If such were the case, solitary exertions would be annihilated, and monopolies in Science and Literature would operate with the same baneful influence which marks their steps in trade. In medical Science, indeed, there can hardly be any such thing as a homogeneous combination of exertion. The investigations of individuals can only be placed in apposition or opposition; and after all, it is by a single head that principles can be drawn from the congregated mass of materials thus collected by the most august societies. But the period for drawing these principles does not seem to have yet arrived, and therefore our business is, at present, to store up facts, as substrata for the construction of the
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