Volume 1

A circular invitatory letter to all orders of learned men, but more especially to the professors of physick and surgery, in Great Britain. Concerning an attempt ... towards an history of the lives ... of the most celebrated British Physical and chirurgical authors / [Edward Milward].

  • Edward Milward
Date:
1740
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Credit: A circular invitatory letter to all orders of learned men, but more especially to the professors of physick and surgery, in Great Britain. Concerning an attempt ... towards an history of the lives ... of the most celebrated British Physical and chirurgical authors / [Edward Milward]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    adtions of former Ages, and the different Inte- - refts of the Nations round about him. A Lawyer of being well vers’d in the ancient ASls, Rights and Records of his Country. A Divine of having a fufficient Knowledge of Ecclejiajlical; and a Phyjician of being well read in Medical Hiftory. Nay, fuch a Quali¬ fication may juftly be affirm’d to be more elpe- cially neceflary in the Medical way, as the Dif- coveries and Improvements of our Predecel- fors, are what we ought in our Practice to be chiefly regulated by. w. r f It will be readily granted, I prefume, that in all Arts and Sciences, we are more imme¬ diately concern’d about what has b$en tranf- adted in our own Nation. And it may with Juftice be deem’d a very blame able, as well as partial Condudt, to be follicitous in our In¬ quiries into the Lives and Writings of the Au¬ thors of other Kingdoms, and negligent in re¬ gard to fuch as are of our own Extra&ion. ’Ti s certain, that no Country under the Hea¬ vens has ever produc’d a greater Number of valuable
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