as an augmentive particle, as we have it in enharmonia, en-telechia, and en-ergetic. En is not often indeed a medical compound, nor do I recollect its being employed in more than two instances; encephalon, in which it has the sense of interior, a word indeed that has been long falling into disuse; and enuresis, in which it imports excess, and is consequently used as now recommended. Thus restricted, and dus will have the force of and xarw, but will be far more manageable in the formation of compounds.

4. Let agra (aya) be restrained to express the idea of simple morbid affection in an organ, synonymously with the Latin passio, or the berh of the Arabians.

5. Let itis (1) express alone the idea of indammatory action, as in cephalitis, gastritis, nephritis. 6. Let algia (aλya) express alone the idea of pain or ach, to the banishment of such useless synonyms as odyne and copos or copus.

7. Let rhagia (from now, rumpo) be confined to express a preternatural flux of blood.

8. Let rhaa (from jw, fluo) express a preterus« tural flux of any other kind.

By adopting these few regulations, which, instead of innovating, only aim at reforming, our technology, if I mistake not, observes the author, would be in many respects equally improved in simplicity, in elegance, and in precision; the stu dent would easily commit it to memory, and the practitioner have a real meaning in the terms he makes use of. To prove the truth of these asser tions the subjoined table will be sufficient, which may be easily extended to any length by the use of other particles or prepositions, or the introduction of other themes or radical terms of the medical vocabulary; which, when thus simplified and cleared of the numerous synonyms and equivalenta that at present overload it, might be reduced to, at least, a third part of its present length, and be rendered as much more perspicuous as it would be more concise.