Volume 1

The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected himself in forty-nine years practice: or, an account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Together with ... remedies. Designed for the use of all private families / [Thomas Dover].

  • Thomas Dover
Date:
1733
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected himself in forty-nine years practice: or, an account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Together with ... remedies. Designed for the use of all private families / [Thomas Dover]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    16/202 page 6
    Seen Soa h oe 8 fons there are to fet the Symptoms of Difea-_ I sHALL, in the Profecution of this Sub- ject, take Notice, in a very brief Manner, of neceflary to be ‘underftood, ‘Beeaufe they are the Seat of all Diftem pers , whereas the folid Parts are only paflive. ——— Little, that I can find, has been faid of és Matter, though the right Underftanding of it is of fo great Uée in the Art of Healing. | - Insteap of giving us fuch neceflary Pre- liminaries, many lay the whole Strefs of cu- ring Difeafes upon the Number of their Re- ccipts, ftufling their Books with long and tedious Preferiptions; which is little better than teaching us how to cure People, before we know the Nature of their Diftemper. . | - 'Tuars brings to my Mind a Saying of that szood and truly honeft Man Dr. Sydenham ; —— Medice Artis pompa & dignitas non tama formularun Concinnttate & Elegantia, gam morbor vin Curatione ceruitar. Tye late famous Dr. Radcliff was of Opi- yel ; and that fych as purtued their Studies | at
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3