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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    the prefent decaying ftate of the knowledge of the Latin language; the danger of the doctrine coming before the public from ad- venturers unequal to the tafk; and fome other circumftances, partly of a private, part- ly of a domeftic, nature, with which it would be impertinent to trouble the reader; all thefe, at laft prevailed with the author to fubmit, for once, to a tafk, otherwife not defirable, that of tranflating his own work. Such a tafk feemed more naturally calculated to lay the foundation of the commencing fame of an ingenious pupil. But, as no one of many, whofe literature and knowledge of the fubject completely qualified them for the undertaking, wifhed to fuperfede the oc- cafion for his engaging in it himfelf; and as the courage of feveral perfons of a different defcription keeped not pace with their affec- tation or intereítednefs; it is to be hoped the public will not be difpleafed to receive the work from the author himfelf. This per- formance 1s intended for the ufe of three fets of readers; thofe who do not readily enter into a thought conveyed in pure Latin, and, sd: therefoze, might wifh to be poffeffed of a tranílation
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