First lines of the practice of physic (Volume 1).
- William Cullen
- Date:
- MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: First lines of the practice of physic (Volume 1). Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![which was in direct opposition to that of Galen ; and, by the cfiica- .- y of the medicines emi is and his followers, their .cd by many : but the fyffematic Phyficiani chiefly Galenifts, and kept poffeflion of the Schools till the middle of the feventeenth centuiy. It is not,_ however, ne- icre to enter into any further detaii re (peeling the fate of ; for the only circumftance concerning them, nt to point out, is, that, in the writings jotli, the explanations they federally attempted to give of the na of health or ficknefs, turned entirely upon the flate the body. the date of the fcience of Phyfic till about the middle venteenth century, when the circulation of the blood came to b;: generall] dmitted'; and when this, together with of the receptacle of the chyle, and of the thoracic duel:, i !,- exploded the Galenic fyflem. About the fame period acon- taken place in the fyitem of Natural Philo- y. In the courfe of the feventeenth century, Galileo had intro- il reafoning ; and Lord Bacon having propofed ; . .' I oi 1 a difpofition to obferve liments. Thefe new modes of philofophiz- be fuppofed, would foon have had fome influence on ine ; but the progrefs of this was flow. The ! of the Circul; lead to the con- f the Organic Syflemin 1 to the application of the mechanical phi!: phenomena of the animal oecono- . d, till very lately, : on the fubjecV Such rea- ■ in feveral i-fpeels continue to be applied : • could, nor ever can be, (Economy ; and . had a greater lie. i I theperiodjuft now Chemift, had been ftate anc >n of the fluids, the found... i -. la ftj term an Humoral <!tetn. that chemiftry pro- Galenic or Ai phile \ng io bed. ' He in 154.1, in bit him/elf,-;> ufe of kis](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21112228_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
