Volume 1

The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected himself in forty-nine years practise, or, an account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Together with ... remedies / By Thomas Dovar, M.D. [sic].

  • Thomas Dover
Date:
1733
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Credit: The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected himself in forty-nine years practise, or, an account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Together with ... remedies / By Thomas Dovar, M.D. [sic]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Door. He told me, befides, in what manner he gave it; which a Man who had ftudied Phyfick only.a Month, would have thought ° no fmall Reflection upon his Judgment. I-wifh -amy Patient would have given ine his Name, it fhould have been put down in Words at full Length, for the general Good ef Mankind. { Read the Second Part of the Hofpital Surgeon, of the Nature and Virtues of Quickfilver.] — Bello, the Author of this Book, calls it the Miracle of Nature, and the greateft Gift of God in the whole Materia Medica, | I appeal to the Reader, if fuch a Perfon as I lately mentioned, deferves the Title of Doc- tor. As for my Part, though I am but a poor Batchelor in Phyfick, I fhall for ever fcorn fo - mean, fo difhonourable a Behaviour. | But concerning the Ufe of Quickfilver, fee ‘the following Paragraphs taken out of the ‘Writings of two learned Phyficians, which awill convince the World that I am not fingle » in the good Opinion I have of Quickfilver. ‘© JT have found the continual Ufe of Aéthi- ops Mineralis to be not only fafe, but al- ways effectual ; which is generally poftpon- ed to the other Preparations of Mercury upon this Account only, becanfe it is the moft eafily prepared of them all. Thus the Operation of- Quickfilver holds univerfally _ the fame ; which, however conftantit may “* be, hinders not yet in the leaft, but that | & Quickfilver — no wa & c a“ & ay & n & Ss n aN