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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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[ -7 ] By the way we may oblerve, that this was a different manner of Scarify¬ ing, from that performed by the help of Cupping. The Arabian Phyficians feera to have a notion only of the latter pra¬ ctice h: but from this place, as well as from fome paflages of Galen, it is plain, that the Ancients made deep incifions in¬ to the skin by the knife •, and therefore thought, by the large quantity of blood they could draw off, that this method was equivalent to opening a vein. The /Egyptians make ufe of it to this very day; and Profper Alpinus defcribes at large the Apparatus ‘: they make firft a ftrait li¬ gature under the ham, then rub the leg, and put it into warm water, and beat it with reeds to make it {well, and fo fca« rify. A procels in every particular dif¬ ferent from Cupping; and therefore in the cure of Giddinefsk, Oribajius himlelf {peaks of them, as two diftind operations. b Albucas, lib. 2. * 3. 5. 4 Synopf. 8. 5. C We

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