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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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[-45] not mention him : whereas he might have been fatisfy’d from his own tranfla- tion, that it is certain: for there Palladius quotes Galen, Indeed he not only men¬ tions Galen here, but in his other works very often: and it may be prov’d, that he lived not only after Galen, but after ALtius and Alexander too, whofe words, as we ihall fee, he makes ufe of. The commentaries upon Traci urea are imperfedt: however, what of them remains is enough to let us fee, that we have no great loft by it: the Text being as full and as inftructive as the Annotations. Thofe upon the Jixth of the Epidemicks go no farther than the fementh Section ; the reft, which in¬ cluded the eighth, being loft. In thefe he with great perlpicuity and exadtneft, illuftrates not only Hippocrates, but fe- veral paflages of Galen; and obferves particularly that the Stone increas’d much in his time, and was lefs curable j and he imputes this to the luxury of the age, R j to

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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