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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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$[ ] nudes the Epifynthetick, the laft: of which had great skill in Surgery. Add to this, that in both thefe authors feveral new medicines occur, undeferibed by their predeceflors. Oribajius, either from Apollonius, or himfelf {peaks very fully of the good effects of bleeding by way of n Scarifi¬ cation, a thing little taken notice of by former writers: and affures us from his own experience, how fuccefsful he had found it in a fuppreffion of the Menfes, defluxions of the Eyes, Headach, flrait- nefs of Breathing, even when the per- {on was extreamly old. He tells his own cafe particularly, when the Plague raged in Aft a, and he himfelf was taken ill, that the fecond day he fcarified his leg, and took away two pound of blood ; by which method he entirely recovered, as did feveral others, who ufcd it. _ * ' * * r ” Collect. 73 20 ' i , * . # , -A * * * - h J * By$