The Prognostics and Prorrhetics of Hippocrates; translated from the original Greek: with large annotations, critical and explanatory: to which is prefixed a short account of the life of Hippocrates / by John Moffat, M.D.

Date:
M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]
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Credit: The Prognostics and Prorrhetics of Hippocrates; translated from the original Greek: with large annotations, critical and explanatory: to which is prefixed a short account of the life of Hippocrates / by John Moffat, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    r ^iv ] tender, or to cohceal his baldnefs. Some fay that he ufed this covering with a view of de- fending that part, which he confidered as the principal feat of life. But as thefe opinions ar« entirely conjedural, others of a like na- ture on this fubjed:, hecaufe they appear lefs confonant to reafon, are-purpofely omitted. His perfonal qualities were manyj in moral deportn^ent he excelled; and was particu- larly remarkable for -difintereaednefs and his attention to the Greeh, From his conf^ant affiduity during the prevalence of pedilential difeafes in various parts, he acquired the uni^ verial efleem and affedion not only of his own countrymen, but of the Grech of every denomination, by whom, as well as by fome fpreign nations, monuments were ereded to his memory in different quarters. He
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