Copy 1, Volume 1

The history of physick; from the time of Galen, to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Chiefly with regard to practice. In a discourse written to Doctor Mead / [John Freind].

  • John Freind
Date:
1725-1726
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The history of physick; from the time of Galen, to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Chiefly with regard to practice. In a discourse written to Doctor Mead / [John Freind]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ * ] and clearly reprefented all the Philofo- phy, the Theory, and Practice of the ancient Phyficians j Co that there is fearce a Notion, aDiftemper, a Medicine, or even the name of an Author, to be met with among them, of which he has not given a full and exadl account. I n this Edition, we have a Plan (con¬ taining fifty-fix pages) which he defigns fliould ferve for a continuation oftheHi- ftory down to the middle of the 16 th (the Title by miftakefeys the 17 th) Century j a (pace of 12 o o years, and too large to be well explained in Co fhort a sketch, tho' he had not filled half of it with relating all the obfeure jargon and nonfenfe of that illiterate Enthufiaft, Paracelftts. You defire that I would lend you my thoughts of this piece; I mull: own I wifli, I could give it the fame chara&er, which the former very juffcly deferved. But it feems to me not only a very im¬ perfect and fuperficial performance, but in many particulars inaccurate and erro¬ neous
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