Cyclus metasyncriticus: or, an essay on chronical diseases, the methods of cure; and herein, more fully, of the medicinal waters of Bath and Bristol, their several virtues and differences / [John Wynter].

Wynter, John, 1699-

Date:: 1725

Credit: Cyclus metasyncriticus: or, an essay on chronical diseases, the methods of cure; and herein, more fully, of the medicinal waters of Bath and Bristol, their several virtues and differences / [John Wynter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The Seafons of the Year, in which Chronical Difeafes flourifh moil, are Au~ tumn and W inter. What Notions the Ancients entertain’d of Chronical Difeafes, may be gather’d from a very remarkable Paflage in 7 Cce- Uus Aurelianus, an African, about the Time of Galen, Some think. He iays5 4 That no one had treated of the Cure 4 of Chronical ‘Difeafes particularly and 4 methodically, before Themifon ; Some 4 wholly pafs’d them by, as judging them 4 incurable ; feme were of Opinion, they 4 belonged to the Office of the fllipt/g, 4 or Anointers (of whom I fiiall have 4 Occafion to fpeak in the Chapter of 4 Exercife) and others, as Erajifttatus, 4 and Afckpiades., have fom crimes men- 4 tioned them curforily in their Dilcourles 4 on other Difeaies. But Themifon wrote 4 Three Books of ChronicDifrempers. 1 Tree fat, ad Morbos Chronic os, p,z6 8. From

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