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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

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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[ '4 ] Heliodorus : and yet, were thefe his own,’ how little of Surgery do they contain ? /Film was, without doubt, a practitio¬ ner in Surgery1 himlelfi and gives fome little account of alrnolt every operation, particularly he is fuller in cales of the Eyes, than even Celfus is: yet notwith- flanding this, he takes no notice of a very material branch of Surgery, Fra- Bures and DIJlocationsin treating of which, Celfus thinks fit to employ an en¬ tire book. Oribajius and /Etius have preferved feveral fragments of Antiquity, and thole of lome value, not any where elfe extant: To omit a number of others, many of Arcbigenes and Herodotus (the chief of the Pneumatick Se<3) of Pofido- nlus and AntyUus, each of whom lee ms no inconfiderable writer: though the le- cond is but fiightly touched upon by Mr. le Clercy and the two latter not lb * 4? 3> 3r 4* 4> 39* &c.

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].

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