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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![[ 2-7^ ] This is the firft Writer, I believe, who gives the lead hint of Chymical Medi¬ cines ; for what we find in the old Greek Chymijls, as they are called, relates only to the fufion or tranfinutation of Me¬ tals. Mr. le Clerc pitches upon Avi¬ cenna, as thefirji introducer of Chymijlry into Phyfick 5 for this reafon, becaufe in him, he {ays, occurs the firft men¬ tion of a Chymical remedy, tho’ but of a fingle one, which is difiilled Rofe-nvater; and he quotes tn»o1 places out of him to that purpofe. But if he would look into Avicenna more carefully, he would find that there is not the leaft hint of Dipllation, but a very plain direction how to hoil the Ro(cs in Water, the lame as the Greeks ufed in making the Rhodo- jlalfon and Hydrorofaton • and what Gef- ner {ays of the old Arabians, I believe is true, that wherever the tcater of any plan-, occurs in their Writings, there is meant t De Viribus Cordis & Pleurit.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30529360_0001_0287.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
