Dr. Gregory's conspectus medicinae theoreticae : embracing pathology and physiology / with the original text, an ordo verborum, and literal translation. By John Steggall.
- James Gregory
- Date:
- 1855
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Dr. Gregory's conspectus medicinae theoreticae : embracing pathology and physiology / with the original text, an ordo verborum, and literal translation. By John Steggall. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![/ ramenta kot e£«x^’' ciicuntiir ; quo- rum scientia medico baud pardm proderit. 16. Hujusraodi varietates non corporis raodo, verum et anirai quoque, plerumque congenitee, nonnumquam lieereditarise, obser- vantur. Hoc modo parentes ssepe in prole reviviscunt: certe paren- tibus liberi similes sunt, non vul- tum modo et corpoi'is formam, sed animi indolem, et virtntes, et vitia. Imperiosa gens Claudia diu Romse floruit, impigra, ferox, superba; eadem illacbrymabilem Tiberium, tristissimum tyrannum, produxit; tandem in immanem Caligulam et Claudiura, et Agrippinam, ipsum- que demum Neronem, post sex- centos annos, desitura. ] 7. Quin et ab aliis can sis, Anna adbuc valetudine, corpus bu- manum multas et graves subit mutationes ; et impi’imis a vitse ge- nere et victu quo utimer, ab ipso peramenta kat' sci^ entia quorum liaud parum proderit medico, 16. Varietates Jmjusmodi non modo corporis, verum et animi quoque ohservanlur, plerumque congenitee, non- nunquam hcereditariee. Hoc modo parentes scepe revivis- cunt hi prole ; certe liheri sunt similes parentihus non modo vultum et formam cor- poris sed indolem animi et virtutes et vitia. Imperiosa Claudia gens, diu floruit Ro- mce,impigra, ferox, siiperba: eadem produxit illachryma- bilem Tiberium, tristissimum tyrannum ; tandem desitura in immanem Caligulam et Clandium, et Agrippinam, que demum Neronem ipsum post sexcentos annos. 17. Quin humanum cor- pus subit multas et graves mutationes et ab aliis causis, valetudine adhuc flrrna, et imprimis a genere vitce et viclu quo utimur, ab ipso temperaments, for the sake of distinction ; a knowledge of which will be of no trifling use to the medical man. 16. Varieties of this kind, not only of the body hut of the mind also, are observed, generally congenital, sometimes hereditary. In this manner, parents frequently revive in their offspring; certainly children are like their parents, not only as to the countenance and frame of the body, but the disposition of the mind, virtues, and vices. The imperious Clandian family for a long time flourished at Rome, restless, ferocious, and liaughty. The same produced the pitiless Tiberius, a most dreadful tyrant, at length about to close its existence by the outrageous Caligula, Claudius, and Agrippina, and lastly Nero himself, after six hundred years. 17. Moreover the human body undergoes many and important changes also from other causes, the health being still unimpaired ; in the first place, from the mode of life and kind of food we make use of, from the atmosphere itself under which we live, and froth the un-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28149452_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
