The outlines of a new system of the practice of physic and medical surgery / [Richard Reece].

  • Richard Reece
Date:
1810
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Credit: The outlines of a new system of the practice of physic and medical surgery / [Richard Reece]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANCIENT MEDICINE. | Every practitioner, whether Physician, Surgeon, or Apothecary, desirous of obtaining a respectable rank in his profession, should be acquainted with the ancient records of Medicine. _ Although the most important facts are scattered in our modern works, yet the writings of many of the Ancients merit our atten- tion. When the title of Doctor is assumed merely as a claim to the fee, which is too often the case, it is, perhaps, of little con- sequence whether the impostor can read.—The public is content to take his talents on the trust.—The man who is ignorant of the practice of the ancients is not entitled to the rank, or title, of a Physician. The history and progress of Medicine to the present period afford abundant proof of the imbecility of our boasted reason, the limited powers of our intellects ; after so many ages it still remains a conjectural art. Although we may sometimes find it stationary, and at others evidently retrogade, it should not suppress our ardour ; but rouse our most zealous exertions, since it is impossible to say to what degree of perfection it may be brought, by zealous perseverance, and industrious research.
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