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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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[ 2 4° ] This doctrine Jikewife explains to us, how upon amputation, when the trunk of the artery is cut offj the courfe of the blood is nevertheless preferved : the Ieflcr arterial branches in this cafe fupply the defect, and by diflending themfelves gradually to a greater dimen- fion, are able to furnifh thofe parts with what is neceflary for motion and nou- rifhment. A Problem, which can ne¬ ver be folv’d by any other principles than thofe of the circulation ■, and is Co far from being an objection, as fome igno¬ rant Writers make it, againffc this do¬ ctrine, that it is one, and not the leaft, demonflrative proof of it. Once more, this doctrine at firfl fight fhews us die true method, (as ’tis now practiced among our own Surgeons, who yield to none either in their skill of Anatomy, or the ancient Surgery,) of treating Aneuryfm, which arife upon a punCture: how inftead of ufing com- preffion, which feldom flops the cur¬ rent

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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