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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    [ *8 ] tiling effential, either in the theory or practice of Phyfick, I know not; for I can find no fiich jnfinuation. The Dr’s words are t, Mr. le Clerc fays, thefe two furnijh us with every thing which is effential in Tloeory or Practice, particularly in Anatomy and Surgery. I think thefe two fignify juft the fame thing, in Eti- glijh, as ces deux in French. And tho’ the Dr. did not add his remark on thefe authors, as as reflection on the Plan, yet as far as I can j udge, hefhews, that both Oribajius and Aetius, even taken toge¬ ther, are deficient in Surgery, whatever Mr. le Clerc s reafon was to affirm, dans ces deux auteurs tout ce quit y a de plus effentiel dans la theorie & la pratique de la medecine en general, & dans cede de la chirurgie en particulier, dec. I am now come to a very material point, in which, the Annotator ufes all the artifice and all the learning, which. I be- P Hifiorj of Fbjficb, p. , j.
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