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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![[ *74 ] well-skill’d in the Arabick tongue. But whatever acquaintance he might have with fotne of the Arabian Medicines, it is very remarkable he treats of no other diilempers, than what are to be found in the other Greek Authors; and does not mention any of thofe difeafes, which the Arabians fir ft took notice of, not (o much as the Small Pox. The Sana- cens firth brought in this diftemper, and wherever their Arms prevailed, this fpread itfelf with the fame fury in Africk, in Europe, and thorough the greateft part of Afia, the Eajlern part efpecially : and it feems very furprizing, that in fe- veral hundred years, it fhould never ap¬ pear in the Grecian Empire: as, if we confide not only the Phyficians, but the Hiflorians of that Time and Na¬ tion, we have reafon to believe it ne¬ ver did, efpecially when they never fail to take notice of an Earthquake or a Flame. & A N-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30529360_0001_0282.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
