Enchiridion medicum: or, a new manual of physick. Being a compendium of the whole art, in three parts, viz. I. Of diseases of the head. II. Of diseases of the breast. III. Of diseases of the belly / [Robert Johnson].

  • Robert Johnson
Date:
1717
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Credit: Enchiridion medicum: or, a new manual of physick. Being a compendium of the whole art, in three parts, viz. I. Of diseases of the head. II. Of diseases of the breast. III. Of diseases of the belly / [Robert Johnson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE V ‘this little Trak, [have beftowed ; fome Pains, in fearching out, and propofing the true Caufes and has of Difeafes : Which, I hope, will in- duce other Incenions-f] pirited Artifts to a farther Enquiry, that {o the Art of Phyfick may be the better illuftrated, and many things in it that are yet ob- {cure, may be made ROW! | be Chief End of Phyfick, is : to maintain and recover Health ; where- fore L think it would be more for the Honour of all Learned Phyficians, to employ them{elves in the Enprooebken of the Materia Medica, (which have been hitherto too much negletted) than to content themfelves with a formal Way of Practice : For Difeafes can- not be cured by Scholaftich Twattle, or Fine W ores, but by good Revadien AA 2 The