A letter to Dr. ------- in answer to a tract in the Bibliotheque ancienne & moderne [by J. le Clerc], relating to some passages in Dr. Freind's History of physick / [John Baillie].

  • Baillie, John
Date:
1727
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Credit: A letter to Dr. ------- in answer to a tract in the Bibliotheque ancienne & moderne [by J. le Clerc], relating to some passages in Dr. Freind's History of physick / [John Baillie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *7 ] even appear his own; fomewhat in imi¬ tation of the Bee, who forms, from dif¬ ferent flowers and different mixtures, one Ample unmix’d fweet. What the Critic farther fays,” that the Dr. accufes Mr. le Clerc for having affirmed, that Oribajius and Aetius con¬ tain every thing, which is effential ei¬ ther in the theory or practice of Phy- fick, muff be a wilful miftake. The Dr, by no means accufes him, only men¬ tions barely his words, and adds, by way of remark in general, on thefe au¬ thors, and not as any refledfion on the Plan ,n that Aetius, in his long 'work, en¬ tirely omits anatomy and the ufe of the farts i and 'what is purely chirurgical in him, is fcattered confufedly here and there, and is imperfeB as 'well as immethodical, &c. How this Critic comes to affirm, that the Dr. infinuates that Mr. le Clerc laid, each of thefe authors contained every m Art. 4. p. 402. n Hiftory of Plyfick, p. 12. 0 Art. 4. p. 403,- E 2 thing
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