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The history of physic, or, an account of the rise and progress of the art, and the several discoveries therein from age to age. With remarks on the lives of the most eminent physicians / Written originally in French by Daniel Le Clerc, and made English by Dr. Drake, and Dr. Baden. With additional notes and sculptures.

Daniel Le Clerc

Date:: 1699

Credit: The history of physic, or, an account of the rise and progress of the art, and the several discoveries therein from age to age. With remarks on the lives of the most eminent physicians / Written originally in French by Daniel Le Clerc, and made English by Dr. Drake, and Dr. Baden. With additional notes and sculptures. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$vegnum in Phyfick, and that the fixe or feven hun dred Years intervening between thefe two great Men were nor time loft, as fome pretend, Onthe contrary ,it {hems that during this interval the * Foundations of rational Phyfick were lard,.the Diflection of Animals introduced, and a new method of enquiry into the cautes of diftempers | ' brought into play for all whith we’ are obliged to f the Philofophers, Pythagoras, Alcmzon, De- | mocritus, and others therein mentioned. y ¢ 7 _ From Hippocrates to the Period that clofes the S 4th Book, which Icall the firft Hiftory of Phyfick, we find nothing new, the term being very {hore. We only obferve that the Philofophers of that time, the chief of which were. Plato, Ariftotle, aud Theophraitus, pujh don alittle further in imi- tation of their Predeceffors their Anatomical dif- Rian We Leena tert pre SEM re commart PR ee ee - 1a ; iy eweme dee ~ 7 x A “a ‘ . oo Prelide coveries;, éfpectally Ariftotle. The Practical i : Foundation laid by Aippocrates, aad his prede- § Ny ceffors,remained ver; little altered tm all that Time, There: remains only the Phyfickof Hippocrates, | y, which, asI have fad, w the moft confiderable | Aes . part ofthis firft Volume. What thats, may be | feen inthe third Book. I {hall only add, that, if [| ny than objetls, teat I have not exhaufied this if vich Fund, bat have icft much unfaid, | acknow- aa ledge it. Bt this L aljure him, that, to the belt til Tit of my Fudzment, I have made Wirppocrates (4 - , 7 wothing, bat what he really did fay, and shat ’ ue, W Lbave omiited nothing, that I thought very mate- a int Rig yial, either inhisveafonings, or bis method. B that Pa 1 have one word more more to add concerning ao : the Language inwhich Iwrite lf Thad writter iM In] in Latin, I might perbaps bave had more Readers, Xe ech and the faults. havebeen lefs vifibles at leaft £ Bhim ane might have hoped for as eafy pardon as abundance | j ny of other Authors, that have written lately in it, “| | tho but indifferent Afaffers of tt, “Tis pure ha- B20 ty inour that made me write in French. If my Book Dobe fr ¢ F) ° > ¢ : Ah be worth the while, twill find Tranflators enough a. a 4 ei d . J oF Wluc} t to makeit~of ufe to Straugers, Aadsfor the BD ig 4 y 2 nf - ay } ¥ i ny \ French ‘tis fafficient , if they uxderfiand me, Bf lhe Ove without being (olicitons about the purity, or ; olite- neliofthe Sule, which feldom falls tothe {hare oft hofe bat are aut berdzrers ADOT pe Conniry.$

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