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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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[ ] here add one remark, that the cure of an original Palpitation has been omitted by moft of our Writers in Phyfick, who have generally diredted all their rules of practice to thole of the Sympathick kind only-?: tho’ certainly there are Palpita¬ tions, which depend upon no other for¬ med diftemper, nor yet upon any fault of the Heart or Pericardium, and which may be removed by art, as A&uarms here propofes. Affuarius is the firft Greek writer, who has mentiond or defcrib’d the milder forts of purging medicines, fuch as CaJJia, Manna, Sena, Myrobalans: the two laft he fays were brought from foreign parts to his country, i. e. from Syria and /Egypt. Sena he defcribes as a fruit; by which no doubt he means the fame thing, as Sera- pion does by the Vagina, and Mefue by the Folliculus, which contains the Seed: for neither thefe authors, nor ABuarfus — ■» --- ■ ■ ■ ■ --—- - — - — - - - g Vick River. men-

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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