A treatise on the powers of medicines / by the late learned Herman Boerhaave ... translated from the most correct Latin edition, by John Martyn.

  • Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738. Tractatus de viribus medicamentorum. English
Date:
1740
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Credit: A treatise on the powers of medicines / by the late learned Herman Boerhaave ... translated from the most correct Latin edition, by John Martyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    via 2& PR E FACE. a have been published without the fandtion of our learned Author's own name. T h e firft edition of this Book in Latin, and another printed in Englijh were both fo full of errors, that they were quite unworthy of the great name which was prefixed to them* They were however both received by the Pub¬ lic in fuch a manner, as fhews the great re¬ gard which is paid to whatfoever may be fup- pofed to be the Off-fpring of Boerhaave, A learned Phyfician, who had been the Dif- ciple of this excellent Author, having feen with concern the injury that was done his Mafler, in publifhing fuch mutilated and in¬ coherent Difcourfes under his name, under¬ took to corredt the fpurious Lati?i Edition, from a more exadt Copy, which he had by him in Manufcript. This corredted Edition was printed at Paris in 1737, and is that from which the prefent tranflation was taken. The Notes were added by the Latin Editor, » and fome few, which are diflinguifhed by their being inclofed between Crotchets [ ], have been inferted by the Tranflator. THE
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