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
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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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    [ 20 ] and that of Avxdm in Suidas, arole from miftaking the abbreviation uled in the Manufcripts. But I cannot agree with him in the remark he makes, with re- card to JEtius: the words of ALtius, both in the manulcript and printed works are, dj jM'yp/', h/Ayts to, S'ta.voifujii/, they open the Tombes. Gomeus correct¬ ed this place, and would have it read, my '■to y.vruglct. $'iAvox) they dwell or live among the Tombes: becaule Paulus fays in the very lame lenle, rnxgj. rctU HvvH&la. S'lctlyftvoi. Lambecius thinks this emendation wrong, becaufc the autho¬ rity of the Manufcripts is againft it $ but I am afraid this is paying too great a de¬ ference to the tranlcribers: for the word fittkoi better anfwers the delcription of this Diltemper, as it is fee down by every one of thele writers. The tran- flation of Oribajius exprefles it by Vagan- tur; and Aquarius deferibes it by run¬ ning about the Sepulchres and Defarts, (/’Ot moamat myttvai, words which probab- ly