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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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[ ] t practiced now by our Surgeons, and how much preferable this method is to that old painful and cruel one of flopping the blood by Cauteries, Cm- flicks, or Efcharotics alone. Befides a- voiding an extreme torment in this cafe, we know that the blood, by the laws of its motion, muft continually bound a- gainft the Efchar of the divided veffel with fuch a force, as nothing befides a ligature can well refift. The invention of this method was owing to Parey °, who, as he lays himlelfi had never either leen or heard of its being pra&iced be¬ fore, but had taken the hint of it from a paflage in Galen concerning Wounds, and made the experiment of it with fuch fuccels, that he thinks it came into his head by Infpiration. And no doubt, without inlpiration, if we would re¬ volve often in our thoughts what the an¬ cient Phyficians have written upon any i lib. x 24* - I

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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