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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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[ ] Robert King of Sicily, and who wrote ve¬ ry early in his reign, which began in 1310, by name refer to leveral receipts, which we find in him. So fir one may ar¬ gue negatively : and tho’ it does not ap¬ pear how much older he was, yet it leems probable, that he lived not long before the dole of the thirteenth Century. For not to mention the Antidote of Michael Angelas, who might perhaps be the fir it Emperor of the Palxologi, about the year 12.5 o, and whole wife was daughter to Alex. Angelas 3 he delcribes another, which Pope Nicolas made ule of This Pope I Ihould think to be the third of that name, who died in 1 z 8 o, and contemporary with Myrepfas • becaule as the Times were then, he was a man of learning, and a great encourager ofall forts of it. This at leaft is a fufficient proof that Acluarius is a Writer of a more early date, than Lambecius reprelents him. I have before mentioned fomething of Aquarius's ftyle: and even from thence one may, I think, draw an argument,

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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