Miscellaneous works. Of the late Robert Willan. Comprising, An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition. And detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications / Edited by Ashby Smith.

  • Robert Willan
Date:
1821
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Credit: Miscellaneous works. Of the late Robert Willan. Comprising, An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition. And detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications / Edited by Ashby Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    move the epidermal* Loimic affection. Dis¬ eases, produced by nature, come to a natural crisis. Epidemical diseases are cured by art, which discerns, according to the rules of art, the changes effected in bodies/' After this subtle disquisition, Psetus re¬ commends Hippocrates as the physician best acquainted with the Loimike, and therefore most likely to cure it. The term here employed, in translating into Greek the Persian monarch's letter, is the same as that applied by the Greek tran¬ slator of Rhazes, to express the Small-pox.— See above, page 20. Very scanty materials are afforded to those who would extend a research beyond the time of Hippocrates.—Tradition informs us, however, that destructive pestilential diseases existed at every period. Herodotusp says, an hundred young men, on a religious mission to Delphi, were af¬ fected there by the Loimos, and only two of them survived.—In a consecrated place, where the smoke of sacrifice was continually ascending, these youths could not perish by * 'ETn^n/JLiav Xoi/xtHH 7raQx$. f [Herodotus, Lib. VI. cap. 27.—P. Wesselingii: Am stelodamL]