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
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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![[ * ] Hippocrates: and therefore it is more pro¬ bable, that this Antigonus was elder, per¬ haps the fucceflor of Alexander, about the year 3x0 before Chrijl, or 13 o after the birth of Hippocrates; and this Antigonus anfwers the defcription here given of beins an old man, as well as Gonatas •, O for he was above eighty> when he was killed. So that by this account the age of Viocles will fall out, as Pliny has defcribed it, in the next generation af- ter Hippocrates, much near the time of Arijlotle. These perhaps at firft fight may feem to fome mere Chronological nice¬ ties : but I believe upon reflection they will acknowledge, that unlefs this point (i.e.) the age of every author be firft cleared up, any Hiftorical detail of the ftate of Pbyjick muft be extremely de¬ fective 3 and we muft be at a great lofs to know either what advances it made, or what changes it received in each dif- ferent period of time, Mr.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30529360_0001_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
