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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* ] had no true notion of remtlfion, before the circulation was demonftrated, what¬ ever fame injudicious zealots for the an¬ cients would pretend j and indeed tis impolfible to underftand any thing of this do&rine without a knowledge of the circulation. This in one moment lets us fee, where the flrongeft revulfion may be made -, and as to the manner of blee¬ ding mention’d in a Pleurify, it (hews us, that bleeding on the fame fide, does indeed fomewhat more immediately revel!, but that at the lame time the difference is fa minute, that one wou’d wonder there ever cou’d have been any diipute about it. I may add in regard to bleeding in gene¬ ral, that the Circulation has quite con¬ founded and fuperleded all thole rules, which had been before with fa much pains and formality laid down, as to opening, in particular cafes, this or that vein: and tho’ the ignorant part of th« faculty has loll a good pretence of dri¬ ving on tins way a trade in Phyfick, and of

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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