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A dissertation on the state of physicians among the old Romans, in which it is proved to have been servile and ignoble: against the assertions of the celebrated Dr. James Spon, and Dr. Richard Mead / Translated from the Latin.

  • Conyers Middleton
Date:
1734
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Credit: A dissertation on the state of physicians among the old Romans, in which it is proved to have been servile and ignoble: against the assertions of the celebrated Dr. James Spon, and Dr. Richard Mead / Translated from the Latin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ILobortellus, and very ridiculoufly h ftnveS to transfer all the Indignity of Slavery from the Thy Re tans to the Surgeons and Uculijts. And laftlv, our Friend Mead follows Spon entirely, but reports every thing ot his Art with more Boafting and Magnificence. For Casaubon, tho' he don't allow that all the Thyiicians were Slaves, yet he fays they were for the mod Part fo, and that they were none of them Romans, but all Grecians. Spon chiefly endeavours to raife the Art of Phyfick from Staves to Freedmen, and fo place it a Decree higher : But Mead will by no means Slow any thing ci.hn, bate or ferrite .o be aferibed to Phyilcians; 1 but at once afferts their Liberty and Freedom, and only gives up the Surgeons, as a vile Pack, and Men of fervile Condition, to be worried by us : but it will be worth while to conftder the Argu¬ ments thefe Men ufe in Support of this. < . . . ; s xv . Casaubon, having obferved that a certain 5Phyfician, k who, as Suetonius tells us, was in Company with']. Caesar when he was taken by Pirates, was by Plutarch called 1 the Friend of Caesar, and thac other Men, befides, who profefled that Art, h Spon. Recherches Curisufes d’ Antiq. Differt. 17. It Mif- celknea Erudit. Antiq. Sed. 4. p. 141* * Mead. Oratio Harveian. p. S. it Animadverf. in Sueton. p. 8. * In vita J. C*f. were