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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    [«] * mod learned men may often miftake, when they pronounce their opinion in matters relating to Phyfick, without having; fome knowledge in that Profef- O D /ion, or being well ver/ed in the (everal authors, who have writ upon that fob- jech However as to the Diftemper it- felf, I (hall only obferve, that, if we may believe the reports of travellers, it has not been uncommon in fome Coun¬ tries, as Livonia, Ireland, See. and we meet with fome accounts of the like cafe, in our modern writers ©f Phy- hck. An author juft now mention’d, Donatus, fays, he had himfelf (een two inftances of it: and the Hiftory Fo^ rejlus y relates, is very remarkable, and agrees with the defeription here given by Oribafius, not only with regard to the Ulcers in the legs, but to the circumftance I have been (peaking of, the frequenting Church-yards. The Greek word u(ed to y io. 25* denote