The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham].

Thomas Sydenham

Date:: M.DCC.XVII

Credit: The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$S ] l d , OFTHE RGR EGRERECLOD CLO A COLIC XC XOU OXSGXOCXOQD To the Learned Dr: Thomas Short, Fellow of the College of Plyficians ia London. Dedicate to. you, worthy Sir, this {mall Treatife of M. the Gent and Dropfie, inftead of a larger Volume E AM. deügnd; I mean, che Hiftory of Chronical Difeafes, efpecially of tbofe my Practice was moft converfant in. But, by being too intent on thefe Things, I occafion'd the worft Fit of. the Gowt I ever had; and, therefore, I was admonifh'd thereby, to lay afide thefe Thoughts, tho’ un- willingly; and to confult my own Health, and to be contented; that I had, in fome fort, finifh'd chefe two Dif- eafes; for, as often as I fell to ftudy, fo often ‘the Gout return’d: Therefore, I defire you. would accept of this Work asit is, which I dedicate to you tor two Reaíons D to me, and before others, that have contemn'd them, the lcfulae(s of the Obfervations I publiíh'd heretofore; and alfo, becaufe in Confulration with you, I have found your Genius difpos'd for the Practice of Phyfick: For, tho' ycu ai ‘rather La ^ 4 d$