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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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[ m ] mention any thing of the leaves. And tho’ thefe are chiefly in ufe now, yet the pods are fometimes made ufe of too; and by what we can learn from thefe Writers, were probably the only part of Sena, which was then adminiftred in Phyfick. He adds, that this Simple is very effectual in purging off the Phlegm, as well as the Bile: the firfl quality is what the Arabian Writers take no no¬ tice of. What he relates of its co¬ ming from Syria as well as /Egypt, agrees with the beft accounts we have of this Plant: that which is brought from the Levant being (till efteemed the moll valuable. As to thefe feveral forts of purges he Ipeaks of, he profefledly takes them from the Arabians, whom he calls Barbarians, who without dilpute firfl: in¬ troduced thefe Simples into Phyfick. He f' tes the fame account of the three forts Myrobakns, as they do ; and quotes the name of the Embhae & Belliric# in their own language. Thefe tvso laft, O O

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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