... The rabies piratica, its history, symptoms, and cure ; and the furor Hippocraticus or Graeco-mania, with its treatment / [Bryan Crowther].

  • Bryan Crowther
Date:
1810
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Credit: ... The rabies piratica, its history, symptoms, and cure ; and the furor Hippocraticus or Graeco-mania, with its treatment / [Bryan Crowther]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pliance with my mistake. How particular must be my obligations to this gentleman, when he says, “ that there is not a single word in the original text of any importance which I have knowingly warped, violated, or translated meo periculoSure enough, but he cheated the devil, and imposed upon his reader, by not adding the word omitted. There is a salvo for a Jesuitical conscience !!! It appears, pages 60, 67, by MS, dated March 11, 1810, that the late Mr. Ford, “ with a view of shortening disagreeable disputations,” arrived at this conclusion, “ that so long as XctvQao-iv cauterized, cannot be got rid of as spurious, or an interpolation, it cannot pos- sibly be denied, that Hippocrates was perfectly sensible of the great use of issues made by caustic, towards effecting the cure of the dis- eased hip-joint, and treated this complaint in a mode similar to what is now practised.” If such were Mr. Ford’s idea of the subject, why should he give; a translation of the aphorisms at all ? Might he not have been content with the curative mode suggested by <c.that celebrated physician f”
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