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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![[ 3°° ] different diflempers of the Eyes, where he advifes the ufing Cbirurgical Applica¬ tions 5 and in one of them (a great de- fluxion of humours) he at large recounts three' feveral methods of cure by way of Surgery. I muff obferve here, that in this book, which is one of the lon¬ ged, ALtius quotes fewer Authors, than he ufually does in the others: which may at lead make it reafonable to think, that he wrote in fome meafure upon this fubjed from his own experience. In many places indeed it is evident, that he did : and the chief authors he here 4 refers to, are Se-verus and Demojlhenes - two intelligent Writers, as appears from thefe very fragments. The latter was fcholar to Alexander the Herophilean, cal¬ led Philalethes as well as his mafter : and wrote three books concerning the eyes, which Galen fays were very much com¬ mended in his time.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30529360_0001_0308.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
