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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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[ 15>5> ] pare his account with that of Galen, it will be found, that the number of diftem- pers, as they are reckon’d up by ALtius, amounts to almoft a third part more. It • will be too tedious, and perhaps too un- 3 initrudlive to enter into all particulars; and therefore I fhall inftance only in one Article, that of the Eyes. The diforders incident to that Organ, as they Hand re¬ recorded in Hippocrates and Cel jus, are much the lame,and are in all about thirty: Galen gives the names of leveral others, which indeed have no eflential difference, and therefore he omits any delcription of them ; in ALtius, who has employ’d a whole d book and more in treating of them, you will find there is at leaft dou~. hie that number fully explained, with their Symptoms and Cure. Among thele Celfus delcribes only thirteen, and Galen Icarce any, which require manual opera¬ tion : but in ALtius we meet with thirty *. ' ' II I Mil II Ml d 2, 3, & 4, dif-

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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