Practice of physic ... / with notes ... To which are added, the discoveries made in physic since the time of Dr. Cullen ... Including also the laws of the animal economy, and doctrines of pneumatic medicine. By R.J. Thornton.

  • William Cullen
Date:
1816
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Credit: Practice of physic ... / with notes ... To which are added, the discoveries made in physic since the time of Dr. Cullen ... Including also the laws of the animal economy, and doctrines of pneumatic medicine. By R.J. Thornton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the world with the result of his vast experience, in a work, which he entitled The PRACTICE OF PHYSIC, and this eminent physician gave this knowledge in an English dress, so that the science of medicine might be open not only to the learned, but the public at large; yet, as might be expected, issuing from the academic chair, it was delivered with oracular conciseness, ill-suited even to stu- dents of medicine, and more so, to the generality of readers; hence I have omitted whatever I thought superfluous, and have endeavoured to di- vide and illustrate the Text, with the addition of Notes, so as to render the learned writings of this most eminent practitioner level to almost every ca- pacity; and as the science of medicine has greatly advanced since that period, I have added most, if city presented him with the Professorship of the Materia Medica in 1763, on which subject he also lectured. In 1765, the same magistrates appointed him to the Professorship of the Theory and Practice of Physic, and he began his Lectures on Medicine in 1766, which he continued till the year of his death in December, 1790, four-and-thirty years ! His famous work, entitled, “ Practice of Physicwas published when in the prime of life, and corrected only a few months before his death ; he was then aged 77. He was buried at the public expence, and with the highest funeral honours.
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