Copy 1, Volume 1
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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![[ 244 ] chafm of five hundred years in the Gre¬ cian hiftory; To that we know very little of all that interval, except what fome {lender account of the reigns of a few Emperors, chiefly Mauritius and Hera- clius, furnifhes us with. Palladios, call’d Sophifi or Jatrofophifi, was bred, as he himfelf feerns to hint, at Alexandria. I place him firft among the more modern Greeks, but cannot agree with a late learned author who computes, that he flourifhed about the year one hun¬ dred and twenty fix *. Sr. Albinus ghefles better at the age of Palladios, in ranking him after Galen, i. e. after the year two hundred : tho’ Albinus is guilty of a great over-fight in this matter, for he fays in his Preface to the Tranflation, which he has given us of the Commentaries of Palla¬ dios upon Hippocrates’s book concerning Fra&ures, that he thinks it is probable this author liv'd after Galen; fince Galen does * Biblioth. Literar. N* 2. not t](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30529360_0001_0252.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
