Animadversions on the nature and on the cure of the dropsy / translated from the latin into English by F. Swediaur.

  • Sir Francis Milman, 1st Baronet
Date:
1786
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Credit: Animadversions on the nature and on the cure of the dropsy / translated from the latin into English by F. Swediaur. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / [ §7 ] it happened that this abftinence from drink has fo. generally prevailed? I have obferved that it is written in Celfus, and after him repeated by all his followers and imitators, that drink is not to be given but juft in a fufficient quantity to fupport life. This doctrine fpread by that elegant fcholar, has perverted the judgment of phyfician's in all the fubfequent ages, and almoft extinguifh- ed the ancient and more found principles of Hippocrates. But truly, thefe opinions either convifl: Hippocrates (who in all ages has been efteemed the beft and wifeft phy- iician) of error, or are themfelves unworthy of credit or attention. Therefore it is pro¬ per to enquire whether they reft on the au¬ thority of Celfus only, or on the experience of others. There are perfons who think that Celfus was a Rhetorician, and that he was a greater mafter of eloquence than of the art of healing; but I fhall pafs over whether he was a phyfician or not, in filence. For it is not likely that he would have di- gefted the precepts of the art in fo clear and perfpicuous a manner, or have explain¬ ed them fo well, if he had not himfelf been converfant in the pra&ice of it. However that