Copy 1, Volume 1

The elements of medicine / Translated from the Latin, with comments and illustrations, by the author.

  • John Brown
Date:
1795
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The elements of medicine / Translated from the Latin, with comments and illustrations, by the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In his tranflation, Dr. Brown feems to have exceeded his ufual negligence. His Enelith, it is true, when he is unfettered by the Latin idiom, fhows that he was poorly qualified to do his own work juftice, had he exerted his utmoft care.— T heíe two caufes confpired with the laboured perplexity of his Latin ftyle, to render the tranflation dif- guftingly uncouth throughout, and in many paffages almoft impenetrably obícure. Ima- gine the words of a fchoolboy, raw in Eng- líh, taken down, as he is in the ufual manner rendering a Latin author to his maf- ter, and you will have a juft notion of the ftyle of the work, which I had to refit for publication. Befides, ftrange as it mayappear, - he fometimes miftakes either his own mean- ing, or the import of the Englifh terms, in which hé tries to convey it. Here is an Anftance. CLIX. Sitis et calor, quae infignes quoque in morbis fihenicis notae funt, a fühe- nica in faucium et cutis extremis vafculis dia- theft
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